Google Puts the Brakes On Saving the World

An anonymous reader sends along a sharp and snarky article that takes Google to task for taking longer than expected to award $10M in its competition to find and fund world-bettering ideas. The submitter comments, "After using its tenth birthday as occasion to solicit philanthropic ideas from Web users through its Project 10^100, Google appears to have backed off from its commitment to provide $10 million in funding to the winner. While the company was supposed to reveal the Project 10^100 winner in February, Google has since delayed the vote once and now suspended it indefinitely, due to the overwhelming response — Google says it received 150,000 entries. A Google spokeswoman wouldn't commit to a new date, saying only it would be delayed 'for a while longer.' She further apologized for the company's 'over optimistic assumptions about how quickly we could analyze all the ideas that we've received.'"

Comments

Re:Just like google to take credit for someone els

[tomhudson]

Let me be the first to say "Whoosh! :-)

George W. Bush put the brakes on "saving the world" well before google.

Re:Pay for submission

[hwyhobo]

Of course, they were all successful, enterprising countries, then evil capitalist corporations came, and now they all wallow in poverty. Yeah. Right. Gotta love these left wing politically correct naive idiots.