Teams from 17 countries vie in multimedia search technology contest (The Earth Times Online Newspaper)

Singapore - Fifty-six teams from 17 countries will compete in a next-generation multimedia search technology contest starting on Sunday, organizers said.

The team with the best designed search engine for trawling through multimedia data will take home 100,000 US dollars and intellectual property rights to its search engine, said the Agency for Science, Technology and Research on Tuesday.

The participants will work on creating new technology that can search audio and video files online, instead of just text files.