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TopCoder(R), Inc., today announced that during yesterday's online elimination round of the NetEase/Youdao programming competition, 1,800 of China's brightest computer programmers have now been reduced to an elite 50 competitors. These finalists will be invited to compete live in Beijing in mid July for a share of more than $70,000 in prizes. China-based NetEase, (Nasdaq: NTES), and its independently developed search engine subsidiary, Youdao, are partnering with TopCoder to host the Youdao TopCoder Tournament, a multi stage computer programming challenge seeking the best and brightest algorithmists from across China. All participants will compete to solve a series of algorithmic brain teasers which will be available in Java, C++, C# and VB. For full competition details visit: www.youdao.com/nanti/ .
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"TopCoder is very pleased at the level of participation and the great success of the event for NetEase Youdao at this time," said Jiazhi Wu, Vice President of Technology, TopCoder Asia. "The passion and dedication of the Youdao team has been most impressive and our partnership has been highly rewarding. We are looking forward to an exciting onsite competition in Beijing in mid July and wish the best of luck to the 50 finalists."
Top performers will also have the chance to discuss internship and employment opportunities with NetEase Youdao divisions such as NetEase Youdao Search, the NetEase Hangzhou Research Institute and the NetEase Guangzhou Game Development Department.
About Youdao
A brand new Chinese search engine independently developed by NetEase, Youdao search is committed to providing faster and better search services to Chinese Internet users. At the end of 2006, Youdao beta search was launched with a full production version made available in December 2007. Youdao search products currently include search tools for the web pages, blogs, shopping, images, music, news, video, maps, encyclopedia, translation, a desktop dictionary, tool bar and the Youdao Reader for RSS feeds.
With the rapid development of the internet in China, Chinese internet users have many new search application needs. Youdao is removing barriers and shortening timelines, allowing users to find answers and information more quickly and easily, improving the overall user experience.
Youdao search is based on the powerful product platform and diverse resources of NetEase and has attracted many innovative and talented employees. Youdao has already attracted more than 100 of the brightest and best young Chinese minds and is growing quickly. For more information visit: www.youdao.com .
About TopCoder, Inc.
TopCoder is the world's largest competitive software development community with nearly 200,000 developers representing over 200 countries. TopCoder hosts the largest and most comprehensive developer ratings and performance metrics available. The TopCoder community builds software for a wide-ranging client base through a competitive, rigorous, standards based methodology. This methodology results in a highly consistent set of software components allowing a software-as-parts approach to application development. TopCoder makes this large library of software components built through competition available to all of our clients. Utilizing a world-wide member base and this library, TopCoder seeks to lower the cost of software development while increasing both the speed at which applications can be developed and the quality of the ultimate application. For more information about sponsoring TopCoder events, recruiting TopCoder members and utilizing TopCoder's software services, visit http://www.topcoder.com/ .
TopCoder is a registered trademark of TopCoder, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Jim McKeown
TopCoder, Inc.
860.633.5540
jmckeown@topcoder.com
SOURCE TopCoder, Inc.
http://www.topcoder.com
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