Singapore is throwing a contest to see who can create a next-gen multimedia search engine. Fifty–six teams from 17 countries are entered. It’s called The Star Challenge@Fusionopolis (great name), and organized by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

Interesting what they had to say about why they’re sponsoring the contest:

Next-generation multimedia search technologies will transform the way users interact with rich-media material, an emerging need with the exponential growth of multimedia content and the proliferation of user-generated platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Flickr. With such technologies, users will no longer need to rely on traditional text-based search engines, which require each multimedia material to be tagged in text - a process that is laborious, expensive and limited by how the creator have chosen to describe the content.

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