
Google Project 10 to the 100th
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As part of their 10 year anniversary – in 1998, Andy Bechtolsheim made out a $100,000 check to Google Inc. – Google released an interactive time line of the company history.
Google starts off a Project 10100 (pronounced Project 10 to the 100th) — is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. A contest in which you should submit your idea of how to help the most people in the world. You need to assign a category to your idea, like community, energy, health and education. Later on, 100 selected ideas ...
Google offers £5m for your ideas
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If you have an idea for how to make the world a better place Google wants to know about and is willing to back your plan to the sum of $10m (around 5.5m). Google has set up a fund for world-changing ideas, as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, called Project 10100 (pronounced "Project 10 to the 100th") after the numeric value of a 'googol'. The prize money will be split between the top five entries. Winners won't get to keep the cash, instead it will be used to get their projects off the ground. "Never in history have so many people had so much information, so many tools at their disposal, so many ways of making good ideas ...
Project 10 to the 100th
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Project 10100 (pronounced "Project 10 to the 100th") is a new call for ideas sponsored by Google to change the world by helping as many people as possible.
Ideas have to be submitted by October 20th and Google will select the 100 best ones. The public can then choose 20 semi-finalists. Voting on ideas begins on January 27th. Finally, an advisory board
will select up to five final ideas and Google will help bring these ideas to life by committing $10 million to implement the projects.(more...)
Google competition gets 150,000 submissions
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Google's $10m call for world-changing ideas generated more than 150,000 online submissions when the deadline closed on Monday. Employees at Google must now sift through the ideas, submitted in 25 languages, and choose 100 semi-finalists by January of 2009. Early next year surfers will be invited to review and vote on the 100 semi-finalists. After that a panel will whittle the list down to 20 entrants before making a final selection of five ideas, which will receive a chunk of the $10m (about 6.2m) fund money. Google set up the fund for world-changing ideas as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations ...
