Win 10 Million with Google

On Wednesday the Internet search giant unveiled an altruistic scheme called Project 10¹⁰⁰, pronounced “ten to the one hundredth,” which invites anyone and everyone to submit ideas that can “change the world by helping as many people as possible.”

The deadline for submissions is Oct. 20th. Google will then pick the 100 best ideas.

Online voters will select the top 20, and in January judges will winnow them down to a maximum number of five that split a pot of $10 million that Google will grant for research and development.

Submissions can be entered here. Anyone can post multiple entries.

Oh, and why 10¹⁰⁰? As any math geek knows, that’s a googol, or 10 multiplied by itself 100 times — and the inspiration for Google’s name.