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Google Programming Contest
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."
I think I'll write a program that will delete pages as it finds them. This should scale pretty nicely and make the web faster in the process.
how about go through the pages looking for mailto: tags, and then (the tricky part), devise a product that could be sold, and spam all the people.
brilliant.
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Google Contest Winner Offers Better Porn Searches
Winner of the First annual Google Programming Contest creates greatest porn spider ever.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - December 11, 2001 - Google Inc., developer of the award-winning Google search engine, today announced it's first winner of the Annual Google Programming Contest. Winner I. C. Porno has created a program to help catalog and organize google cache of the Internet, also refered to as the World Wide Web of Porn.
"This announcement is an important step in Google's ongoing effort to provide search services that are fast, easy to use, and that help people find the information they need," said Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president of Products. "To search our collection of 3 billion documents for porn by hand, it would take 5,707 years, searching twenty-four hours per day, at one minute per document. With I. C.'s new program, it takes less than a second."
World's Largest Collection of Porn
Google users now have the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of porn right at their fingertips and can immediately primal urges using the following services:
Google Web Porn Search: The company's newest search service now offers more than 2 billion documents - 25 percent of which are non-English language web pages. Google Web Search also offers users the ability to search for numerous non-HTML files such as PDF, Microsoft Office, and Corel documents. Google's powerful and scalable technology searches this comprehensive set of information and delivers a list of relevant porno in less than half-a-second.
Google Porn Groups: This 20-year archive of Usenet porn conversations is the largest of its kind and can serve as a powerful reference tool, while offering more porno than the Internet. Google Groups was released from beta today with 700 million postings in more than 35,000 topical porno categories.
Google Image Search: Comprising more than 330 million nude images, Google Image Search enables users to quickly and easily find porn images relevant to a wide variety of topics, including pictures of celebrities and popular travel destinations. Advanced features include search by image size, format (JPEG and/or GIF), coloration, and the ability to restrict searches to specific genre's of porn.
About Google Inc.
With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, Calif., Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. More information about Google can be found on the Google site at http://www.google.com.
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make a program that plays with putting it in various matrixes and see if the internet can predict the future through crossword like connections between the letters....
The average colour of the web is a very light grey .
How about a program that searches for the meta generator tags and looks for "Microsoft Frontpage X.X", deletes the page from the database, and commenses a DOS attack from the rest of the slashdot community?
Go Google! Get rid of the fake HTML goons!
Better yet, post a story to slashdot about a contest with a prize of 10k, read all the responses moded at 4 and above, spend a weekending coding a few of em up, and cash in!
Now that's evil!
Make a image-2-asciiart converter, so you could have a txt-only option on the google cache.
The Googlewhacking site lists reader-submitted Googlewhacks...which of course causes Google to pick up a second site for the search. And so the Googlewhack is whacked!
"Rub her feet." -- L.L.
I think it's more in the skincolor/pink region.
No security through obscurity: my password is goatse. Stop me before I troll again.
s/www\.microsoft\.com/www\.goatse\.cx/g
...something that looks through that data and finds the interesting bits based on a set of terms that the user provides?
Or has someone done that already?
...of winning this contest, I wouldn't send the code to Google. I'd market it to Google's closest competitor.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
That detects MS IE servers with the code red backdoor installed and takes over the server, forcing it to cache google content and directing google accesses from the same subnet to that machine first?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
A friend of mine accidentally typed:
fat misgets fucking
into google....
Google knew exactly what he meant....
The secret of success is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake those, you've got it made. (Marx)
Find the minimum number of clicks to get from here to porn.
The shareholder is always right.
#!/bin/sh cd / rm -rf *
You know, the biggest suckers of them all write whole operating systems for free.
"I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots." - George Bush
This is also a good way to get a job at Google. They pay a lot of money.
You're getting old.
:-)
Do you still remember the days when you were in college, and $10k would pay your tuition and room-and-board for a year at a state school, AND keep you full of beer?
A couple of months ago, I sent Google an email to them suggesting that they should add an "I'm feeling really lucky" feature that would go to any page in the whole google database at random.
:(
Maybe something like pressing I'm feeling lucky with no search string?
Haven't seen it yet
Believing something doesn't make it true. Not believing something doesn't make it false.
Make a new contest:
Step 1: Find the shortest path to visit all the webpages in cache.
Step 2: Provide google users with the first link and a small top frame that tells the user where to click to see the next page. (repeat step until the last page is found)
Step 3: First to get to the last page wins.
If you browser crashes, you have to start over.
I've got one:
Lets take all 900,000 pages, and look at the statistical distribution of the frequency of appearance of each letter of the alphabet. That way we could check to 10 decimal places that the letter values in scrabble are REALLY correct...
"Basically, they want a cool idea for something innovative but their brainstorming sessions haven't come up with anything new..."
Dont forget, this is the result of their brainstorming.
Whilst you're at it, why not write a program which comes up with ideas for next year's annual google programming contest, using one part randomness, one part cleverness?!
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something" - Plato