in Reed's "No Rules Rules" book, they discuss how this contest was really a way to recruit top-quality engineering talent, which is a key assumption in how they ran their culture (highly paid small teams with lots of freedom, trusted to know what's best from the ground-up rather than top-down).
They didn't really need an algorithm in the first place, they just brainstormed what would sound the coolest to developers.
They didn't really need an algorithm in the first place, they just brainstormed what would sound the coolest to developers.