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."

Comments

Re:Security Risk

[anthony_dipierro]

Security through obscurity is no security at all.

porn-get - http://www.linuks.mine.nu/porn-get/

[tarzeau]

i'll make a new list! WITH THEIR 9000000 or so website links! anyone can help?

www.daypop.com

[Nathdot]

oh sure this off-topic but anyway,

I tried typing "axis of evil" into the daypop search enginge.

This resultant effect?:

My computer suffered a melt-down

:)

Re:Now I have a use for my Goatse search program

[Kasmiur]

How did I get stuck as a troll? Heck it would probably even be a submission I could give to google as a joke. :-( oh well

(OT) Mea Culpa - that fence scene

[Embedded Geek]

All right. You caught me. I confess. In high school, I just read the Cliff Notes to Tom Sawyer and relied on my hazy memory of a movie (Disney?) version (and that might not have had a "contest" per se, but there was a line to the effect of "I bet so and so can paint faster than you"). Amazing how much bluffing you can do and still pull a "B".

Thankfully, I later developed a taste for Mr. Clemens' work and read Huckleberry Finn and Innocents Abroad on my own, but never got back to Tom. As penance, I'll make a point of picking it up and reading the dead tree version .

That's one thing about /. You guys sure keep a man honest. Bluffing might cut it in high school, but not here! (*GRIN*).