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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. About the "Former Microsoft Employee" bit.. by cOdEgUru · · Score: 0, Troll

    Was that necessary Michael ?

    I mean, no one here cares whether he worked for MS. And we certainly dont believe he got better at coding while he worked at MS.

    And I am not buying the theory that Daniel Egnor is actually the alter ego of Mr. William Gates. His coding skills died with DOS!

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    Rapid Nirvana
  2. winner is... by room101 · · Score: 1, Troll
    The winner is... a former Microsoft employee.
    Let me guess: he "rebranded" a piece of software that was under a BSD license?

    All kidding aside, sounds pretty neat.
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    room101 -- how much can you stand before they break you?
    (they always break you eventually)
  3. Cached Longitude and Latitude by shawnmelliott · · Score: 1, Troll

    Does this mean that when the time comes to leave this planet and move to Mars that we can still visit our favorite places via Google's Cache?

  4. Re:Recommendation for Slashdot Poll by forged · · Score: 0, Troll
    [X]No

    Let the IE lusers suffer !

    Oh btw france lost vs. senegal. shame.