Google's Project 10^100 ?�an initiative that began two years ago today as a call for ideas that would help improve the lives of people around the world, some of which Google would fund ? is finally ready for its grand finale. Google has just announced that it's given a total of $10 million to five different organizations, after culling through over 150,000 ideas.
This is an awesome move by Google, but it's worth recapping the lengthy road it took to get here. Two years ago, in honor of the company's tenth birthday, Google announced the initiative, with plans to hold a vote on incoming submissions a few months later. But Google was mostly silent about the program for exactly one year (we'd occasionally get pinged asking what was going on), until�it revealed that it had been overwhelmed by the number of submissions and decided to have the community vote on which 16 broad themes it should be exploring most.
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