The search engine giant Google (www.google.com) announced on March 28 that three Indians, including one based in Singapore, are among the top five winners in the first contest organized by Google in India. Ardian K Poernomo of Singapore and Pascal Alfadian of Indonesia won the first two places at the Google Code Jam contest, while the Indians, Rajsekar Manokaran, Nishant Redkar and Sreeram Ramachandran, won the third, the fourth and the fifth places respectively. The first two winners received Rs 300 000 ($6900) and Rs 200 000 ($4500), while the Indian winners received Rs 125 000, Rs 75 000 and Rs 50 000.
Krishna Bharat, head of Google India's center, said that Google hopes the contest will provide opportunities to attract strong computer scientists to Google’s research and development center, that the contest is an extension of Google’s annual code jam competition, and that it celebrates the art of computer science, demonstrating to geeks the value Google places on excellent coding.
