I agree it does look like link-baiting-after all this is a link to Google's own site.

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 :-) :-)

If you agree that the title is link-baity and it's your title why don't you change it? (Or for that matter why would you submit it with a link-bait title to begin with?)

A better title would be something along the lines of Google CS Curriculum Search.

What is really interesting is that, Curriculum search is not new- I have been using it for around 2 years. I just happened to discover from course of conversations, with some of my friends, that they haven't heard about google curriculum search - and I was really surprised. It is a great way to look up tutorials, course materials. If you notice the poll results for Curriculum search (cant draw a definitive conculusion from this sample,still), it seems to be terribly skewed towards people who haven't heard at all about Curriculum search- for a CS-centric community like Hacker news, that's very surprising.

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.

I completely agree with you that Curriculum is an interesting, useful, and underutilized feature. However that is completely unrelated to what I said.

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.