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Google Programming Contest

Posted by michael on from the do-you-feel-lucky-punk dept.

AccordionGuy writes: "Google has just announced its first annual programming contest! The objective is to write a program that will do something "interesting" with the about 900,000 Web pages' worth data that's Google provides. In addition to writing the program, contestants also have to convince the judges why their program is interesting (or useful) and why it will scale (that is, handle a constantly increasing load of data that grows as the Web grows). The prize is US$10,000 in cash, a V.I.P. tour of the Google facility in Mountain View, California and possibly a chance to run their program on Google's complete billion-Web-page store."

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  1. Re:This is brilliant - But not evil by owlmeat · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It would be evil if they held a gun to your head and told you to do it. Mod the parent down for trollbait.

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  2. Why don't you try using your brain? by autopr0n · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    What are you going to do, sue yourself?

    Yes, the creator of a GPL'd program can do whatever he or she wants with the code they wrote.(although they can't retoactively remove the GPL, or do things with contributions people make under the GPL)

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  3. Re:The average color of the WWW by rjamestaylor · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    is Flesh tone.

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  4. Re:Strikes me as odd... by Thomas+A.+Anderson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is a troll, right? Perl runs faster than java almost *all* the time (common knowledge), and development in in perl is *much* faster then c and c++ (also common knowledge).

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