Google Programming Contest Winner 229
asqui writes "The First Annual Google Programming Contest, announced about 4 months ago has ended. The winner is Daniel Egnor, a former Microsoft employee. His project converted addresses found in documents to latitude-longitude coordinates and built a two-dimensional index of these coordinates, thereby allowing you to limit your query to a certain radius from a geographical location. Good for difficult questions like "Where is the nearest all-night pizza place that will deliver at this hour?". Unfortunately there is no mention whether this technology is on its way to the google labs yet. There are also details of 5 other excellent project submissions that didn't quite make it."
I sent something into the contest. (Score:4, Funny)
What a great idea (Score:4, Funny)
Google Search (Score:4, Funny)
Latitude/Longitude => 37/180, Pak
Capture
If this would have come out before we could have saved a country
Idea for a Google Query..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:About the "Former Microsoft Employee" bit.. (Score:3, Funny)
Being a former M$ employee tells me he learned quite a bit.
Re:About the "Former Microsoft Employee" bit.. (Score:5, Funny)
Actually he was employed by XYZFind Corp. Literally. And it didn't show up.
More uses (Score:5, Funny)
Results: Apt 2D
Re:if i'd only known (Score:3, Funny)
Re:More uses (Score:2, Funny)
But how many milliseconds would it take before she's slashdotted?
Re:More uses (Score:2, Funny)
Error: This server is too busy to deal with your request