Singapore has launched a contest for developing a next-generation multi-media online search engine. "The coming together of different scientific disciplines at Fusionopolis offers enormous potential to create new knowledge to tackle global challenges that can no longer be approached from a single discipline", said Professor Charles Zukoski, the Chairman of A*STAR Science and Engineering Research Council and Vice-Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While the thought behind the competition for building this sort of a search engine is certainly awe-inspiring, many find the time period of eight months, to build an engine sophisticated enough to outshines Google, quite risible.
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The contest has allowed for eight months time to build the engine and the reward is a 100,000 US dollar cash prize, as has been reported at
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