16 year old guy develops search engine:believed to be better than Google
The moment you think of a search engine, it's Google that comes to our mind.But this time, you have come out of it. Meet Anmol Tukrel, the guy who developed a search engine that is 20% more accurate(average) than Google.Yes,this sixteen year old guy is crazy about it when we guys are still on the basics.![]() |
The fact is that Anmol is still doing his 10th grade |
It all started when Anmol developed this search engine which he claims to have taken a couple of months to design and around 60 hours to code as part of his submission to the Google Science Fair, a competition that is open to students for age group 13-18 years.
Want to know the kit he used to develop it?Simple-A computer with 1 gigabyte of RAM, a python-language development environment,a spreadsheet program and a access to Google and the New York Times.
To test the accuracy,he limited his search to this year's news articles from New York Times.He created fictitious users with different interests and the corresponding web histories. Anmol then fed this information to Google and the search engine he developed.Finally, it was his own search engine that was found to be accurate.It is also said that the algorithm would understand what user would like before it serves the results by going deep into the content of the text.
Looks like Anmol is going to have a great future ahead.He has submitted his paper to the International High School Journal Of Science and hopes to study Computer Science at the Stanford University.