Google is providing a selection of about 900,000 web pages in pre-parsed and raw format, together with a "ripper" program that provides a framework for processing the pre-parsed data. Your mission is to write a program (most likely by adding code to the ripper) that does something interesting with the data, in such a way that it would scale to a web-sized collection of documents. Part of your job is to convince us of why your program is interesting and why it will scale; other than that, you're free to implement whatever strikes your fancy. Grand Prize * $10,000 in cash * VIP visit to Google Inc. in Mountain View, California * Potentially run your prize-winning code on Google's multi-billion document repository. Hey all the programmer out there.. i think this is an excellent opportunity which google is offering to the programmers. prizes are amazing too. This is the first google is arranging it and i hope they continue to do so. Firstly Google will itself benefit from such an event and Secondly ofcourse progammers will benefit. Hope for the best !!! For more details, visit: http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ Google will provide a stipend of 5000 USD per accepted student developer, of which 4500 USD goes to the student and 500 USD goes to the mentoring organization. Youll be paid 500 USD upon acceptance of your application to the program, 2000 USD mid-program (assuming you've made sufficient progress on your project), and 2000 USD at close of program (assuming you've completed your project.) The mentoring organization will receive its share upon completion of the project It was also held last year in 2005. I think it an excellent program by google. Google always comes up will really great projects. This is the reason i love Google !! for more info. http://code.google.com/soc/ Just waiting for the next challenge!
yes... Hope soon a new challenge from Google will appear... I'd like to win some $ and to go to Google Inc.!