SearchGuild: The winner of the stayer prize is:

A contest held to see who could garner the best search engine rankings for a made up phrase ("nigritude ultramarine") was taken by well-known blogger Anil Dash. His strategy seems to have consisted of appealing to his many readers to link to his page "in order to prove that real content trumps all the shady optimization tricks that someone can figure out, and because I figure I deserve an iPod at least as much as the Star Wars Kid."

The contestant with the highest ranking site over a three-day period wins the "Stayer" prize, considered the more prestigious of the two prizes given out. The initial award went to Brandon Suit, an online community administrator.