From: Sean Middleditch <elanthis@...>
Date: 2002-02-10T02:54:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Google programming contest....

I don't have the time/skill for this, but after reading it, I thought
something fun to do would be to play madlibs with the web pages...

Look over the words, use a special dictionary to detect whether they are
nouns, adverbs, whatever, and generate web forms that show the page,
take the replacement words, and submit it to come out with whatever.



On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 02:54, Mikkel Bruun wrote:
> Im a little amazed that this hasn't been brought up yet...
> 
> It could be a MASSIVE pr stunt for the ruby community....
> 
> Google is having a programming contest...
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Check it out...and hopefully someone will make a ruby wrapper for the
> ripper program google is supplying...
> 
> http://www.google.com/programming-contest/
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/06/2025229&mode=thread
> 
> Mikkel Bruun
> 
>