"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 (circumstances permitting)
"The Challenge "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." <URL:http://www.google.com/programming-contest/> An interesting testbed/proving ground for memetic theories. :-) -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
