&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; Google already knew about him before the challenge was displayed.<p>This seems a little unsettling when you think about it. As if they had been tracking him and just waiting for the right moment to spring this on him. I wonder how receptive he would have been had they approached him in a more traditional manner. Perhaps because of the uniqueness of their approach he was more receptive to going along with it?<p>Had this happened to me, I probably would have done an Elliot Alderson and tossed my PC in the microwave.