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A search engine more accurate than Google
Toronto, Aug 22
Anmol Tukrel, a 16-year-old
Indian-origin Canadian citizen, has designed a personalised search
engine which he claims is 47 percent more accurate than Google.
The
young student designed the search engine as part of a high school
project and also to submit to the Google Science Fair, pressexaminer.com
reported.
Tukrel came across the idea of a personalised search
engine during an internship stint in India at Bengaluru-based adtech
firm IceCream Labs.
He planned to take it Google's personalised search engine idea to the next level.
Tukrel
said that unlike most search engines that use a person's location or
browsing history to throw relevant results, his engine tries to show the
most relevant content by mapping it to a user's personality.
Tukrel's search engine is currently restricted to one year's news articles that appeared in The New York Times.
His
development kit included only a computer, a python-language development
environment, a spreadsheet programme and access to Google and New York
Times.
To test the accuracy of his search engine, Tukrel limited the search query to this year's articles from the New York Times.