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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. I sent something into the contest. by thedanceman · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I guess they thought there was no need for -thedanceman- on the google site.

  2. What a great idea by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only more pizza restaurants in my area had web sites. Soon enough, I won't even have to pick up the phone to make my food come to me! I wonder if the delivery guy will bring the pizza up to me at my computer. Hmm...

  3. Google Search by iramkumar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Search => Osama Bin Laden
    Latitude/Longitude => 37/180, Pak
    Capture ...

    If this would have come out before we could have saved a country ...

  4. Idea for a Google Query..... by ReelOddeeo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Where is the nearest server in my jurisdiction where I can download....
    • MP3's
    • Warez
    • Pr0n
    • Explosives making instructions
    And worst of all....
    • DeCSS
    We've got to stop all of the terrorists in the categories mentioned above!
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    Those who would give up liberty in exchange for security and DRM should switch to Microsoft Palladium!
  5. Re:About the "Former Microsoft Employee" bit.. by Mononoke · · Score: 3, Funny
    And we certainly dont believe he got better at coding while he worked at MS.
    You've never learned from the mistakes of others?

    Being a former M$ employee tells me he learned quite a bit.

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  6. Re:About the "Former Microsoft Employee" bit.. by PrimeEnd · · Score: 5, Funny
    If the guy had been employed at XYZ University, I'm sure it would have still shown up.

    Actually he was employed by XYZFind Corp. Literally. And it didn't show up.

  7. Re:if i'd only known by Indras · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would ask for royalties! A buck for every time someone viewed a page containing my code :o).

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