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Google Programming Contest Winner

Posted by michael on from the check-out-the-big-brain-on-brad dept.

asqui writes "The First Annual Google Programming Contest, announced about 4 months ago has ended. The winner is Daniel Egnor, a former Microsoft employee. His project converted addresses found in documents to latitude-longitude coordinates and built a two-dimensional index of these coordinates, thereby allowing you to limit your query to a certain radius from a geographical location. Good for difficult questions like "Where is the nearest all-night pizza place that will deliver at this hour?". Unfortunately there is no mention whether this technology is on its way to the google labs yet. There are also details of 5 other excellent project submissions that didn't quite make it."

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  1. Re:france 0 - senegal 1 by 3.5+stripes · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ooh yeah, screw the french.. :)

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  2. Sour grapes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Proof that slashbots hate MS because they are successful.

    Perhaps if you took the energy you waste in your bitterness against MS and used it for something productive, the HURD may finally be finished after 18 years.

  3. Re:About the "Former Microsoft Employee" bit.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dude, ask your doctor to increase your dosage.

  4. Re:Nice (grammar?) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Whilst I'm very impressed with the winner the entry "Robust Hyperlinks" is something that do like a lot.
    Whilst I'm very impressed with the winning entry, "Robust Hyperlinks" is something that do like a lot.

    What would be cool, would be the option to right click on the hyperlink and have the option "Find alternative location".
    What would be cool would be the option to right click on the hyperlink and have the option "Find alternative location."

    Or even cooler, have IE (or your favourite browser) on putting up the 404 message have a hyperlink which does the same. Hell, easy enough to do with apache.
    Or, even cooler, have IE (or your favourite browser) on putting up the 404 message have a hyperlink which does the same. Hell, easy enough to do with apache.

  5. I think you got the parenthisese mixed up by Catskul · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    .... It should be :

    "...Have your favourite browser (or ,if you must, IE)..."

    :)

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