First Annual Google Programming Contest

It\’s the First Annual Google Programming Contest.


Grand prize is $10,000 in cash, and more.


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. The 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 the job is to convince them why the program is interesting and why it will scale.