Today I submitted the abstract to my professor which follows:

These days nonprofit organizations more than ever need help finding new opportunities in grant funding for their organizations to continue to operate and ultimately complete their mission statements. An obvious choice is searching online. However, developing search criteria such as using relative keywords, including specific sites, or even excluding superfluous search terms can be complex and time consuming process. With this in mind, would nonprofit organizations benefit from developing advanced search algorithms when searching online for new and available grants?

This research project will attempt to answer this question using the Google search engine along with various supporting online tools. Methods for searching and data collection will involve experimenting with order, exclusion, phrases, and other specific Google search parameters. Even though the main key search terms for this research project will be “technology” and “real estate”, these terms can be simply replaced with alternative industry terms to satisfy other nonprofit organizations’ search requirements. Results from the experimental searches will hopefully provide a clearer picture into the world of grant searching on the Internet using a search engine. Finally, a conclusion will summarize findings along with commentary for using advanced search algorithms by nonprofit organizations when searching for online grant funding.

I look forward to beginning the experimental search algorithms for data collection followed by publishing results for the research paper.

–Corey

For <location>, Remetal will reuse the <Location> compound element offered by Google’s Keyhole Markup Language (KML). <Location> is the parent element to following elements as such:

   <Location>
     <longitude>39.55375305703105</longitude>         
     <latitude>-118.9813220168456</latitude> 
     <altitude>1223</altitude>
   </Location>

With this and a bit of xsl transformation, could this element inclusion lead to mapping apps reusing remetal listings? Hopefully is my first thought. I’ll let the developers decide what to do and resist tainting.

One of the main principles of the Internet is to “reuse” protocols which already exist, but in this case Remetal will simply reuse an element which already exists thanks to KML.

Feel free to leave comments.

–Corey