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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. I know what someone should make! by Cruciform · · Score: 4, Troll

    How about adding the option to have google understand what I *mean* to search for, not what I tell it to search for.

    Oh, and the ability to find one non-fake Britney porn pic.