Google again delays debut of Project 10^100 ideas

Google had planned to announce on Tuesday the ideas for its Project 10-to-the-100th to improve the world through Google-sponsored work, but the search giant delayed the announcement a second time.

"We will unfortunately have to delay announcing the top ideas for Project 10^100 for a while longer. We've never managed a project like this and it's taken more time than we ever imagined possible. We apologize for our overoptimistic assumptions about how quickly we could analyze all the ideas that we've received, and thank everyone for their patience," said Andy Berndt, managing director of the Google Creative Lab, in an update to the January 26 blog post that announced the first delay.

Through the project, Google invited people to submit ideas for projects that could change the world for the better. Google is working on presenting the projects, and then plans to let the public vote on the top 20. An advisory board will select five that actually will be funded with $10 million.

"Beyond a certain very basic level of material wealth, the only thing that increases individual happiness over time is helping other people," Google said when announcing the project in September. "If you have an idea that you believe would help somebody, we want to hear about it. We're looking for ideas that help as many people as possible, in any way, and we're committing the funding to launch them. You can submit your ideas and help vote on ideas from others."

The name of the project refers to a googol, the number of 1 followed by 100 zeros.

[BillM607]

Too bad it is too late to submit ideas to change the world. A no brainer would be to get rid of Bacack Obama and the rest of the idiots running our new communist government.

[Stufiano]

Yes, the Bush administration did so much better with AIG and the other bailouts.
Really, the blame for the downshift in the economy lies squarely on Obama, or O-bomb-a.
The stimulus plan didn't work, AIG is giving away my money, and they are already raising taxes in areas.
This has been a nightmarish 2 months, just imagine 3 or 4 or 5?!

[pjhenry1216]

Over 60% of Americans think Obama is doing a good job. Less than 30% though Bush did a good job. This doesn't prove anything other than that its obviously *not* a no brainer as more people disagree than agree with you. Therefore your idea is at best controversial, at worst, its wrong. But there's no way you can call no brainer, unless you mean it as those with no brain would obviously agree with you.

[cnetRajja]

Hi Friends,
My idea "Virtual World" is selected in Google - Project 10^100.
Please vote for it to make it real!
http://googleproject10tothe100th.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-project-10100-idea-virtual-world.html

Thank you.. :)

[NetGenEducation]

Getting back to the topic, Discovery Channel and Don Tapscott (author of "The Net Generation" "Wikinomics" and others) found one way to avoid the "boil the ocean" challenge that Google is obviously facing was to focus on one major issue at a time, with Education being the first. To wit, take a look at the Net Gen Education Challenge: http://netgened.grownupdigital.com/. In the spirit of mass collaboration, all of the entries are available to view and rate, all of the time. Entry deadline is March 31. Googlers or anyone else interested in workign with the community to solve soem fo teh problems in public education: go take a look!

[pjhenry1216]

I think improving education would have the most impact as well. Lack of education is either the root cause or at least a very influential factor in many of the world's problems, from prejudice to fiscal responsibility.

[dtapscott]

Good point. The Net Gen Education Challenge: http://netgened.grownupdigital.com/ community went from nothing to thousands of daily participants almost overnight. We're a small company. Imagine what google could do?

Don

[rfuture]

What happens to the at 150,000 entries minus 100 which are not released for voting? In the spirit of "Those Who Help The Most" it would be the obvious next step to release all those other entries to the public. Do these ideas now belong to Google or do they revert to the the orginators?

[Liquid54]

To those who like to use approval ratings to justify there position, George Bush had a 90% approval rating back in 2001. And 40% at the end of his term. Our education system considers anything below 60% as failure. So to say our current president's approval rating is 60% with the current situation of the United States does not help me sleep at night.If he follows the same pattern as his predecessor then in 4 years he would leave with 35%

[anthocer]

Politicians will never suffer of recession, they create wars, economical crisis and approuve Istitutional speculations.
When all those negative functions will be under control, the world might become an unified land of cooperation and realistic thoughts.

Anthony Ceresa

[lakshmirao]

Google *PROJECT 10 TO 100* is one of the best way to help the mankind. I just want to know when the Shortlisted ideas will be announced and it will given for voting. Kindly let me know as i am eagerly waiting.

[ElwellG]

Has anyone heard from Google's Project 10 to 100th, they had to know after the first announcement date was missed how many were left to complete before announcing St. Patrick's day and miss that one too.

I submitted my project for Health, I would expect Google to give everyone some idea when we will see the short list, this does not show favorable for Google's credibility.

[robinsg]

I agree with Elwell. Its been more than 2 months since they postponed the date.
However, we heard nothing from google for a long time.

[Greencc]

I feel our need for better education is high on the list. We know not everyone is cut out for college and don't have the time and/or money but need a skilled job. We need to bring back vocational schools in every State, county, localities, etc. Back in the 1950s and 1960s they were everywhere and after attending one for 6 mos or more, you were trained for a skilled job. You had secretarial, masonry, carpentry, electrical, artistry, and it seemed endless. Alot of these classes were introduced into the high schools, etc. Where are they now. I guess the educational system could not make enough BIG money and away they went.

[csara]

Google *PROJECT 10 TO 100* is one of the best way to help the mankind. I just want to know when the Shortlisted ideas will be announced and it will given for voting. Kindly let me know as i am eagerly waiting.

[jeffreality]

Is this project dead?

Without an actual deadline or any milestones, it makes it easy to back-burner going through the entries, but a lot of people spent a lot of time (and put a lot of thought) into trying to submit stuff that they thought would benefit the world.

Maybe they should think about crowd-sourcing the entries and have them be rated publicly, which would help them sift through everything faster.

@Stephen Shankland: This is something a reporter would need to follow-up on in order to get any information from them. Is there any chance you could light a fire under them? There's literally no information online with any updates... Thanks!

[robinsg]

I have a slight feeling that google is selecting from the received ideas and implements themself.
The reason why I am saying is, I have submitted an idea related to power managent , "energy management using intetnet protocols, and I saw google started implementnting the same in feb 2009, see http://www.google.org/powermeter/ I can give one more example here. Did any one have same experience ?

Is google really stealing our ideas?

[Lakshmipathi_G]

robinsd,

>Did any one have same experience ?
Yes,Even I had slight feeling whether my idea ( regard to approaching online ads ) is implemented.
I sent a mail to them enquiring whether it's just a coincidence or my idea being implemented by them.
Awaiting for reply from them.

>Is google really stealing our ideas?
I don't think so,I hope they won't do that.

(An Q&A from here http://www.project10tothe100.com/faq.html)
Q: What do I get if my idea is chosen?
A: You get good karma and the satisfaction of knowing that your idea might truly help a lot of people.

:)

[robinsg]

@ Lakshmipathi

>I sent a mail to them enquiring whether it's just a coincidence or my idea being implemented by them.
>Awaiting for reply from them.

Eventhough I mailed them, no response received yet !

>Q: What do I get if my idea is chosen?
>A: You get good karma and the satisfaction of knowing that your idea might truly help a lot of people.

If I do come to know, right ? :)

[anthocer]

Google continue to postpone the result of the Project 10-100. Please consider that shortly we shall enter in the fourth Millennium and the man by the natural force of evolution, most probably don't need any more Projects of the past.

Anthony Ceresa

[imp5D]

July 4th, and still no word. Well, does this mean I need to think about filing a provisional patent on my idea? Otherwise, the YouTube video Google encouraged me to post by October 20 2008 will qualify as a "published document" and it will go public domain, without the benefit of even being evaluated by this project!

Somebody with pull at CNET please contact Google and get them to get their act together. We 150,000 submitters have put a lot of effort into this, now its their turn.

[Nazzy_b]

I personaly think Google is delaying this project because it does'nt have enough money to sponsor the chosen ideas. Google promised "$10 million to fund up to five ideas" before the economic crisis really took effect.

Does anyone agree to my statement?

[Nazzy_b]

I personaly believe that Google has'nt followed through with this project because it does'nt have enough money at the moment to sponser a $10 million project. Google promised "$10 million to fund up to five ideas" before the economic crisis really took effect. They probably lost alot of money.

Does anyone agree with my idea?

[imp5D]

Well some interesting developments: Back on May 15 Forbes.com posted an article by Elizabeth Woyke titled Google's Gaffes, about Google mysteriously delaying two of its highly touted contests, the 10 to 100 contest and the Android Developer Challenge second part. Twelve days later Google announced ADC 2, and the first round is now on starting August 1, so maybe there is still hope for this one too. Curiously, the total prizes seem to be $3 million (down from $5 million for ADC 1), the apps have to be in English, and the judging dates are given very loosely; by months & projected at that. So maybe they really are learning as they go here.

As far as running out of money, Google just yesterday reported strong earnings for its second quarter, taking in $5.52 billion revenue representing a 3% increase over Q2 08, so I don't think that will be a problem. Hang in there, its got to be our turn next.

[opensource10tothe100]

Google has delayed Project 10^100 long enough; the world needs Google's ten million dollars now. That's why Project 10^100 Now was formed to raise public awareness about Google's unreasonable delay of Project 10^100 and convince Google to accelerate the project. Visit http://Project10tothe100Now.org/ for more information.

[cnetRajja]

Hi Friends,
My idea "Virtual World" is selected in Google - Project 10^100.
Please vote for it to make it real!
http://googleproject10tothe100th.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-project-10100-idea-virtual-world.html

Thank you.. :)

[sserdyuklina]

My projects Google rejected .
May be this projects will be interesting for my friends in Yahoo.

Sergey Serdyuk



1. "method for potentiating drugs"
Electrical vagus stimulation is considered as the most effective method of treatment of such diseases as epilepsy, depression, chronic pain, drug addiction, obesity, resisted to action of drugs. However the mentioned method demands expensive operation and is not safe (it can cause cardiac arrest, bronchospasm, abdominal pains and other complications.). I suggest safe method of the chemical stimulation of the receptors of vagal afferents by agonists of peripheral receptors: cholecystokinin (CCK), glutamate, ??P, epinephrine, phenylephrine, carbacholine and adenosine, weakly penetrating into CNS, which in small, not causing side-effects doses after systemic or oral administration selectively stimulate chemoceptors of vagal afferents. Chemical stimulation of vagal afferents by agonists of peripheral receptors eliminates pain, depression, anxiety, convulsions, hypoxia, inflammation, neurodegeneration, psychosis,extrapyramidal disorder , stress disorder, that the most important thing, in tens and hundreds times potentiates action of analgesics, antidepressants, antiepileptics, neuroleptics, antiparkinsonian drugs, neuroprotective drugs, antihypoxic agent, stress protective agents without increasing of side- effects of drugs (US patent 6.833.377, US patent application 20050192220). In contrast to expensive and unsafe method of the electrical vagus stimulation the offered method of chemical vagus stimulation is safe, cheap and accessible to patients as allows to use agonists of peripheral receptors in the standard dosage form (solutions, tablets, syrups, granules) or can be added to dosage form of known drugs. The method does not have any disadvantages, except one - he is not necessary to known pharmaceutical companies as decreases of doses of drugs and, in addition, substitution of these drugs to cheap stimulators of vagal afferents (which any patient can independently use) may cause to drop in profit of pharmaceutical firms. The idea can be realised quickly enough, for two years term because the used substances are allowed to clinical application. As a whole, the idea is devoted to the problem of creating of the simple and accessible method of chemical stimulation of vagus for the purpose of mass treatment of many diseases, and also potentiation of effects of analgesics, antidepressants, neuroleptics, antiepileptics, antiparkinsonian drugs, neuroprotective drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, antihypoxics agent, stress protective agents without side-effects and complications. Realisation of the idea will allow to reduce considerably doses and to eliminate side-effects of known drugs, and in the long term - to substitute these drugs with much cheaper chemical stimulators of vagal afferents which any patient can independently use without limitation. Means are necessary for carrying out of the preclinical researches in animal models of pain, depression, epilepsy, parkinsonism, hypoxia, anxiety, psychosis, neurodegeneration, inflammation and also for carrying out of toxicological researches in animals. At the second stage it is supposed to estimate safety of the method on volunteers and to spend 1 stage of clinical trials. Successful completion of preclinical and clinical experiments will allow to suggest simple and accessible method of chemical stimulation of vagus for treatment of many illnesses, and also method of potentiation of effect of analgetics, antidepressants, neuroleptics, antiepileptics, antiparkinsonian drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, neuroprotective drugs, antihypoxic agent, stress protective agents without side-effects and complications. The references: 1) Patent US 6,833,377. S. Serdyuk, Composition and method for potentiating drugs. 2) Patent Application Publication Pub. No.0192220. S. Serdyuk, Composition and method for potentiating drugs. 3) Serdyuk S.E., Gmiro V.E., Epinephrine potentiates the analgesic and antidepressant effects of polyvinylpyrrolidone and cholecystokinin due to stimulation of afferents in the gastric mucosa. Bull. Exp. Biol. Med. 2007, 143(3): 350-352. 4) Gmiro V.E., Serdyuk S.E. Epinephrine potentiates antipsychotic, but not cataleptogenic effect of haloperidol in rats. Bull. Exp. Biol. Med. 2007, 143(5): 617-619. 5) Gmiro V.E., Serdyuk S.E. Epinephrine potentiates antipsychotic, but not cataleptogenic effect of haloperidol in rats. Bull. Exp. Biol. Med. 2007, 143(5): 617-619.