Probably Irrelevant / date / 2011 / February

Two more weeks for Computer Science graduate students to apply for Yahoo’s Key Scientific Challenges grant. Highlights of the grant include,

• $5,000 unrestricted research seed funding which can be used for conference fees and travel, lab materials, professional society membership dues, etc.
• Exclusive access to select Yahoo! datasets
• The unique opportunity to collaborate with our industry-leading scientists
• An invitation to this summer’s exclusive Key Scientific Challenges Graduate Student Summit where you’ll join the top minds in academia and industry to present your work, discuss research trends and jointly develop revolutionary approaches to fundamental problems

Deadline is March 11, 2011.

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If you use Chrome, you can block results from certain sites. Even if this is equivalent to adding [-site:domain], it certainly makes the query easier to specify. Promoted as a way to filter content farms, it could provide easily data to go beyond simple results filtering.

G is upfront about collecting the data,

If installed, the extension also sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results.

Hopefully this means users are starting to get a better idea of how data flows and is exploited by modern information providers.

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