16-year-old Indian-origin student Anmol Tukrel creates a personalized search

16-year-old Indian-origin student Anmol Tukrel creates a personalized search

The 16 year old boy has reportedly designed a personalized search engine which is 47 % more accurate than Google. Yes, you have read it right and we have got Google’s new CEO Sundar Pichai’s attention! Where he was supposed to take Google to new heights, he now has to girdle up to give a good fight to Anmol Tukrel, a student from Holy Trinity School in Toronto, who has not only created a search engine at his young age but claims it to be more precise than Google.



To design the new search engine, he took help from a python-language development environment, a spreadsheet program and access to Google.

Although the testing of the software was limited to news articles from The New York Times, the results even on such a small sample are quite encouraging. Also, Google is said to have one of the fastest, most accurate search results as compared to other search engines that exist. The 10th grade student has claimed that his high school project is 47 percent more accurate than search engine giant Google.

The algorithm Tukrel created dishes out search results by dwelling deep into the context of the search query, and matching it to a user’s personality. “For someone to look at a successful Google product and attempt to go one level up, it’s astonishing”, said Sanjay Ramakrishnan, cofounder of Ice-Cream Labs, and former marketing head of Myntra. “My computer teacher was pretty impressed with the project”, said Tukrel, who has put up a link to the test cases online on http://bit.ly/1FYRNxl for anyone to view. He now hopes to study further with computer science at Stanford University.

Rumors have that the boy may also join Peter Theil, the founder of Paypal’s foundation. He is presently running a small company on his own, named Tacocat Computers, with consent from his parents.

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