The Google-AU blog reports that Google is going to be holding another one of it’s brain busting adventures soon. The post is ended with the following text/clue:
Arrrrrrrr you ready? Onward to the first puzzle, matey! And good luck!
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Soon
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Warning: links below contain spoilers.
Shouldn’t take long to figure out. The 10 digits of the final number is a dead giveaway that it’s a unix timestamp, and maps to a particular time. That’s soon.
The seemingly random string is a base64 encoding of a particular website.