Google offers $10M for world changing idea
Google Inc., which is celebrating its 10th birthday this month, today unveiled a $10 million effort to implement ideas that can “change the world by helping as many people as possible.” As part of the Project 10^100 (pronounced Project 10 to the 100th), Google plans to ask its users to submit ideas until Oct. 20 for ways to improve people’s lives. Google will choose what it feels are the 100 best ideas and then allow its users to vote on which of them should be funded. The users will narrow the results to 20 finalists, and a panel of judges will choose up to five ideas that will receive funding, Google said.
Google noted that the ideas can be big or small, technology-driven or not. But they do have to have a potential positive impact on the world. The company cited an example of two people coming up with an idea to help millions of people carry water long distances by designing the Hippo Water Roller, a relatively inexpensive 24-gallon container that can be easily wheeled on the ground. The categories for the project include, but are not limited to, community, energy, environment, health, education, shelter and opportunities for people to better provide for themselves and their families.
Source: ComputerWorld
Comments(36)
Legalize file sharing
lol legalize weed everywhere
lol yeah legalize weed would make the world a better place.
I think productivity might suffer a bit though.
Would take more than 10mil to convince the evil pollies to accept that idea.
someone invent a cheap consumer level 3d scanner.
Would be cool to be able to scan in my glossy knob end in all its 3d glory!
then invent a cheap consumer level 3d printer.
So i can print out copies of said bell end ;p.
seriously though, a way of circumventing intellectual property for medicine in the third world would do so much good. and hopefully it would lead to a complete re-think regarding copyright law.
Bring down EA… Everyone profits, except EA, the way it should be ^^
I love google !
Don’t be evil
End central banks. I win! I don’t want any prizes though.
Close the internet on a sunday.
If the Google will create a ” google bank” and for every single search using google engine, 0.01 cent stored to this bank, helping all the poor children and nations.
If this will happened i believe that 1.000.000.000.000.000 $ will be available in one year.
Think about it…
It’s not like you will get $10 million if you send in the best idea.
If you send in the best idea and you win, they will spend 10 million dollar financing that idea.
if this continues for 50 years, the world will be better!
Twassive Matt are you Jewish?
Mazeltov!
I have an idea.
brainwash women so that they’ll be honry 24/7.
10M please!!!
@15
You want your grandma to be horny 24/7?
Canned farts.
Adi….Adi…this is your grandma speaking.
I’m horny as hell.
Pee on me, Adi!
i go with Peter’s idea(number 10):
“If the Google will create a ” google bank” and for every single search using google engine, 0.01 cent stored to this bank, helping all the poor children and nations.
If this will happened i believe that 1.000.000.000.000.000 $ will be available in one year.
Think about it…”
lol…
think they ever do this?
Its a ripoff. Google wants your genius ideas, and then decides who else (winners will NOT receive the funds) will implement the idea with 2 million each. WTF
Send me spam:
jlmajor1@charter.net
Plenty of ideas
- Eliminate Chavs
- Keep this website running
- Get rid of Gordon Clown and the rest of the labour party in England.
- Hunt down and exterminate all email spammers
- Cure cancer
- Make sure the next Star Trek movie is good, instead of the rubbish that it looks like it will be.
world changing idea:
Open a series of schools with free tuition that teach skills so we dont need “professionals” to do our work for us- and encourage co-operative self-determination…within a generation or two we eliminate authoritarian government and capitalism. The world becomes heaven. (obviously I’m leaving out a bunch of socio-economic commentary/ideas, but you get the jist- create an anarchistic society…)
Schools to “encourage” co-operative self-determination that will eliminate authoritarian government and capitalism? For it to teach this wouldn’t it need to teach essentially everyone in a generation?
Aren’t you basically describing a re-education camp? I’m pretty sure that isn’t a ‘new’ idea.
Not to mention, you are coming from a place that assumes that these ideas will become cultural in a generation or two, and that children will adopt them. Either that, or we get an anarchistic society of forcibly sterilized people so they won’t have children.
Stop TV waves for one month.
If Google would create a OS better than Windows, somethin like Android for mobile that should be free, alot of people would enjoy this. Think about everyone who’s speaking here. How many of you have genuine Windows ? U could make a poll about that Martin !
How about a “reach-out” program aimed at helping high-school graduates attain affordable breast implants.
My head is super big. And there’s a symptom called macrocephalic. It would be wonderful if google can create a drug that can reduce head size.
The Google prize is born…
Hey … i have an amazing idea..
Gimme 10M and i’ll tell you all about it…
Yeah right, they will receive millions of ideas FOR FREE, publish a hundred of them for everyone to see and steal, and they will pay one dork. I bet that in the contest terms you are not allowed to post an idea that is a protected intellectual property, meaning they can redistribute the “smarter” ideas. Smells like fraud.
Come up with a true $100 “GoogleTop” laptop for all the kids in the world who cannot afford one.
Im with the skeptics on this. Intellectual property violation. Sourcing for free ideas which most likely be implemented in Google’s @ war mission to capture user behaviour online via as many possible ways it can interact with the user – all captured, stored and mined.
“Legal ‘Hacking’” and “identity ‘theft’”
u can make google websites and gmails not to be free say like 10 dollars for 6 month and u take these money and help the poor people and u can even build shelters for the homeless and foood.
Dear Releaslog,
In my opinion Google`s 10 to the 100 is an obvious ripoff of those ideas submitted in good faith. Yes, I submitted two ideas and trusted Google to do what they said they were going to do. I personally feel betrayed. I urge everyone who submitted an idea or so to call the F.T.C. like I did and file a complaint. I also filed compaints with just about everyone else I could find. I know that Google does not want the public scrutiny of formal investigations. You can file a complaint even if you didn`t submit an idea, if you were looking forward to voting on those ideas and now don`t get the chance. Who would have thought that Google, a company who treats their employees so well could do such a thing???
Google project 10 to the 100 turns into 10 to the maybe 5??? Call the F.T.C. and file a complaint if this angers you. The B.B.B., congress, senators, news media, call any and all of them and let Google know what you think. I did.