Vote to improve the world – Google’s Project 10 to the 100
Google’s Project 10100 is ready for the next stage – your vote.
Google will help to “change the world by helping as many people as possible.”
People have submitted more than 150,000 ideas over the last few months and Google has whittled this down to a handful of finalists. You can vote for everything from a system to report things that are broken, through improvements to government, environment and the economy. You can even vote to enhance science and engineering education.
Why is it called “Project 10 to the 100″? Well, Google’s name is a corruption of the number 10100 = 1 googol.
So go vote already and let Google spend some of its billions to help fix things you care about.
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26 Sep 2009 at 3:41 pm Link to this comment
What a joke !
On top of their very bad communication and challenge management, Google has a curious opinion on what will change and improve the world.
There were different categories and it seems that only one has been retained (social, education).
I’m now convinced that this game was setup by Google to grab ideas for free and take patents and make business.
As an example, I’ve submitted the Energy meter at the beginning of the game and 4 months later the Google Power meter was published with exactly the same features.
Very sad.
28 Sep 2009 at 11:59 pm Link to this comment
How Google has changed the contest rules:
When I’ve submitted my proposal, I’ve made a pdf copy of the original rules and FAQ.
They obviously have removed the paragraph related to the pickup of 100 ideas and the vote on the 20 best ideas (public vote) and finally the selection of the 5 very best ideas by a comitee.
Now they have decided to directly select themselves 16 ideas.
I’ve proposed an idea for the fun (many people believe that Google would have given 10MIUSD to the winners although the reality was that Google would invest in the selected ideas which was a good idea)
But even for the fun, I believe it’s a shame to change the rules during a contest !
29 Sep 2009 at 9:08 am Link to this comment
Thanks for the story. Hmm – this is not good. Certainly they shouldn’t have changed the rules mid-stream.
Anyone else has experience with this competition?