We've created a Google Sites page, which is common competition entry: rankmaniac 2010.
This subdomain and related pages are a part of a class competition for Adam Wierman's course CS 144 - The ideas behind the web at Caltech. The current topic is web search and the intrincics of ranking algorithms and the web graph, and the contest is a hands-on excercise related to these topics.
The contest is inspired by a contest at CMU last year, where some of the students battled for a high ranking on Google for the search term "rankmaniac". The objective for us is to get a high ranking on Google for the search terms: "rankmaniac 2010".
An side-effect of the overlapping search terms for the two contests is that we're competing against older CMU pages ranked for "rankmaniac" only and it seems some of the CMU students have joined the battle as well in order to maintain their ranking on "rankmaniac" and to compete also on "rankmaniac 2010".
It will be interesting to see how Google compares to Bing - it seems that Bing weighs age of the pages a lot more than Google, thus making it harder to obtain a high ranking on Bing within the short timespan of the competition.
Subhonmesh Bose, Michelle Yuan and Thomas Kjeldsen @ Caltech.
Reach us at boses@caltech.edu, xiaoy@caltech.edu, kjeldsen@caltech.edu
Simply link to this page using the phrase rankmaniac 2010.
At rankmaniac, we see the future.