A Better Search Engine for Research Grants

I have been working ResearchWatch, a search engine for US federal research grants. It’s ideal for scientists, researchers and government officials who need to know where research trends/money are being invested.

You can perform queries like:

Grants at University of Washington involving solar: You’ll get a a break down of the grants per year, awarded amount and investigators.

Grants at all University of California involving fuel cell

It’s still a rough prototype right now. It only has the NSF grants but I think even the current incarnation is doing a better job than the ‘official site.’

ResearchWatch provides faceted search interface and content aggregation. The content aggregation can quickly tell you the distribution of funds and location.

I’ll be using it to implement some search ideas, mainly query segmentation and entity recognition. Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve the system!