YANDEX TO LAUNCH ONLINE SCAVENGER HUNT
The Moscow Times
Award-winning Russian search engine Yandex
has launched a new concept in online competitions, the First
Open Internet Search challenge. The competition is open
to all with access to the Internet and, of course, the ability
to read and write in Russian - with the winner receiving
a cup and the title of "the man who found everything."
Yandex general director Arkady Volozh, winner of the 2001
Intel Russian Man of the Year award, knows of no other similar
competition having been held - and this scavenger hunt is
definitely the first on the Russian Internet. Consisting
of three rounds from Monday to May 28, participants compete
online to find the answers to 20 questions that are fed
automatically onto users' screens at three-minute intervals.
The questions and answers have been collected from a database
of queries made to Yandex by users who were unable to find
a particular piece of information.
There is no restriction on the search tools used in the
competition. In other words, you are not limited to using
Yandex or the Russian Internet. Along with the answers,
participants must also provide the web address of the page
that provided the information. Getting the answer right
without providing the information's source is not accepted
as a correct response. The competition's homepage, kubok.yandex.ru,
provides details on participating.
