Search string contest... Pls help

Discussion in 'Bing' started by daveny, Sep 30, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi all!
    In our university (Technical University of Budapest), we have a cup called Schönherz Qpa. There are teams challenging for this cup. Now, we are in the pre-cup section and we have to solve or show up better results then the other teams.

    So, the mission is to get a search string at live.com which will give back nearly or exactly 20060902 results. (it will be checked at 1st Oct, 2006)

    So... is there any opinion how to do that?

    I tried the followings:

    Search Engines {popl=11} {frsh=0} {mtch=15.5}
    -or-
    blog -(live OR sch) {popl=19} {frsh=0} {mtch=00}

    Pls help... thx.
     
    daveny, Sep 30, 2006 IP
  2. mad4

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    I suggest making up a new word and spamming it on loads of pages. Is this the idea?
     
    mad4, Sep 30, 2006 IP
  3. mahmood

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    It doesn't make sense to me, perhaps I haven't got the idea.

    Do you mean that you have to find a word or a phrase that when search it at MSN you get 20060902 results? If this is the idea I don't see any sience in it.

    The only way that I can suggest is Brute Force programming but the problem is that the number of possibility is infinite.

    Even MSN doesn't know which word or phrase returns this number of results. If they knew we could assume that the purpuse of this contest is to finding a way to hack MSN and extract the information.

    First confirm my assumption then I may be able to suggest a solution to it.

    EDIT: OK I got it, just confirm my undrestanding of the problem then If I am right I give you the answer.
     
    mahmood, Oct 3, 2006 IP
  4. hhheng

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    It's Oct 16th today. How is the result?
     
    hhheng, Oct 15, 2006 IP