Tukrel unveiled his product at the Google Science Fair.
By Dileep Thekkethil
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No kingdom has lasted forever and so is the story of search engines. It seems like an Indian-origin Canadian kid is all set to make this true in the case of Google – the world’s most visited search engine.
The 16-year old Anmol Tukrel claims that his search engine can give faster and more accurate search results than any other existing search engines. According to him, the personalized search engine is 47% more accurate than Google and 21% more accurate on an average.
Tukrel, a 10th grade student, has been working on the search engine for a couple of months and he is said to have spent close to 60 hours coding to build what he believes is a Google-killer.
Interestingly, the search engine is a part of Tukrel’s project submission for Google Science Fair, which is a science competition for students aged in between 13 and 18.
“I thought I would do something in the personalized search space. It was the most genius thing ever. But when I realized Google already does it, I tried taking it to the next level,” said Tukrel, who was in India for a short internship program at Bengaluru-based ad tech firm IceCream Labs.
Tukrel’s testing kit includes a computer with 1 GB of free storage, a python language development environment, a spreadsheet program and access to Google and The New York Times.
Tukrel’s search engine is currently restricted to one year’s news articles that appeared in The New York Times. The teenager has created a personalized search profile for several dummy users who have different interests and web history.
Tukrel has put his test project up online and can be accessed on http://bit.ly/1FYRNxl. He said, “My computer teacher was pretty impressed with the project. I skipped a year in computer science, so they knew I was good, but maybe not so good.”