How many of you don't use Google CS Curriculum search?

Interesting.<p>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.<p>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.<p>The results for the two searches for "red-black tree" are approximately the same; all tutorial material.<p>The results for "bloom filter" are like those for "trie": the standard SERP is all tutorial material, and the CS SERP is mostly research.<p>CS search looks like an interesting middle ground between Scholar (which I use all the time) and standard Google. Thanks!

Bit of a link-bait title, this along with various other of the labs search projects are interesting but hard to find.<p>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?

Based on the poll over here : <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756193" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756193</a> : the answer is "Almost Everyone."

The comments on this page seem surprisingly negative. I for one just had a great experience using that service. I've been looking on and off for months for a course on Abstract Algebra (with lectures).<p>So, I type in "abstract algebra" into the search and here's what I get: <a href="http://code.google.com/edu/curriculumsearch/results.html?cx=009384408222384877262:p27tltxalv0&#38;q=abstract+algebra&#38;sa=Search&#38;client=google-coop-np&#38;cof=FORID:9;CX:Curriculum" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/edu/curriculumsearch/results.html?cx=...</a> Perfect.<p>So this search engine passed my initial test with flying colors.

The stuff on Algorithms is interesting, but not very deep for anyone who knows the basics and is trying to expand their understanding. But I think these are meant to be general lessons rather than specific.

Well, I <i>didn't</i>. But now that I know about it...

You should really ask that question on Digg, Ask Yahoo, and maybe the Bing support forum.

Having recently gone through Google's interview process, I think this site is useful getting up to speed for that, since Google is looking more for Computer Scientists than Computer Programmers.

Didn't know about this until NOW. The traditional Google knows what I want better than the Curriculum search. Also, a lot of students have enough to study from their lecture material -- what they would want are snippets to specific topics which they find difficult to understand (Again, Google does it pretty well too). In short, even Google can't beat Google.

I've started a poll on this: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756193" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1756193</a><p>Only 4 votes so far, but 75% have never heard of it.<p>ADDED IN EDIT: And now over 87% have never heard of it.

I don't.<p>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.

I was a little startled when results didn't appear as soon as I started typing. I'm actually used to instant search now. When did <i>that</i> happen?