Canadian citizen Sixteen-year-old Anmol Tukrel is an Indian-born
techie and has designed a search engine all by himself. He also claims
that apart from it being 47 per cent more accurate than Google’s search
engine, it is also 21 per cent more accurate on an overall average.
Tukrel
is just a standard 10 student and has been working on the project for
just a couple of months. He has taken around 60 hours code and build a
search engine, which is a part of the submission to the Google Science
Fair. The Google competition is applicable for those between ages 13 and
18.
According
to reports online, when Tukrel was in India for a short internship in
Bangalore, that's when he came to know about Google already having a
personalized search engine, he planned to take it to a next level.
Tukrel’s development kit included only a computer with at least 1GB of
free storage space, a python-language development environment, a
spreadsheet program and access to Google and New York Times.
He
managed to test out his product’s accuracy with limiting his search
query to the current year's news articles from The New York Times. He
then created numerous fictitious users, each with a different interest
and other corresponding web histories. This information was then fed to
both Google and his search engine, after which, he compared the results
between the two.
Tukrel has submitted his paper, of research and
his findings, to the International High School Journal of Science. He
now hopes to study further with computer science at Stanford University.
He is presently running a small company on his own, named Tacocat
Computers, with consent from his parents.
