How many of you don't use Google CS Curriculum search?
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I was surprised when I met several CS grads who were not using this, because they hadn't heard about it!
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The first 4 results on the standard SERP for "trie" are Wikipedia, a pretty decent BU article on Tries with Sedgewick-style source code, an intro-to-tries article, and an article about using Tries for spellchecking.
The first 4 results on the CS SERP are a Princeton CS PPT on tries, Java source code for a trie, a paper on inductive logic programming using tries, and a tech report on "Nye's Trie" which looks like an interesting distributed systems solution modeled on tries.
The results for the two searches for "red-black tree" are approximately the same; all tutorial material.
The results for "bloom filter" are like those for "trie": the standard SERP is all tutorial material, and the CS SERP is mostly research.
CS search looks like an interesting middle ground between Scholar (which I use all the time) and standard Google. Thanks!
I wonder if they build separate data sets for these lab searches or if it is just a special tag that could also be passed to your main Google search box like labfilter:csci or something?
But since there are two places to search- Code, and curriculum,PERHAPS Curriculum search is somewhat overlooked. I didnt know about filter:csci before.. I often dont type in 'filter' in my searches. Also, if this was very widely used, I would have expected to see some mashups,competitors- which I didnt. Anyways, if there is even one CS grad who got to know about CS Curriculum search through this post, I think it will increase my real life karma tremendously :-) :-)
A better title would be something along the lines of Google CS Curriculum Search.
Another thing to think about is that- proper vertical search for course contents of top universities around the world, would go about a long way in providing quality "self-education" for students all around the world.
Look at khanacademy- when one guy making educational videos on algebra and arithmatic,is making such a huge impact - here we have a good search facility of top cs curriculum /course material of the best universities all around the world, lying idle?
I dont want to sound patronising- but just think- what an incredible feature is this in the hands a CS curious hacker in Africa, or for that matter any 'third-world place' -all he/she needs is internet connection! That's it!
I really feel sad that something which ought to be very,very popular, probably is gathering dust at Google.
Again, why do you make a submission with a title that you openly admit is link-baity, unless you are trying to artificially increase your karma? I don't know how long you have read HN but your account is less than a month old and intentionally submitting link-bait (especially by a relativity new user) reeks of karma whoring and really pisses me (and I assume/hope a number of other users) off.
So, I type in "abstract algebra" into the search and here's what I get: http://code.google.com/edu/curriculumsearch/results.html?cx=... Perfect.
So this search engine passed my initial test with flying colors.
Only 4 votes so far, but 75% have never heard of it.
ADDED IN EDIT: And now over 87% have never heard of it.
I might if I ever need any info on algorithms in the future, but I'd wager that there are quite a few professional programmers on here who, not being in college anymore, don't really need to read academic papers.