This 16 year old is beating Google at its own game
Most 16-year-olds are busy googling for proxies or playing the next
video game or browsing on Facebook. But, Anmol Tukrel, a 16-year-old
Canadian boy of Indian origin has just made a search engine that’s 21%
more accurate than Google’s Search. Google had once beaten Yahoo in the
search game with accuracy as well.
Anmol started working on a search engine to submit at the Google Science Fair, which is conducted annually for students aged 13-18. The search engine Anmol created is 21% more accurate than Google on average and can be as high as 47% more accurate. The Class 10 pass out spent 2 months and about 60 hours of coding to develop this.
Which is just…
He limited his search to New York times articles and created multiple
fictitious users with different web history and interests. Yea, we’ve
made our fake profiles too.
He then fed the data to both Google and his own search engine and compared the results. You can see his results here
Anmol claims that Google’s personalized search depends on factors such as App installed in a person’s phone, location, browsing history etc. Which according to him is only one side of the coin. Anmol says that his search engine understands what a user would like by digging into the context of the text before matching it with personality of the user, and showing search results .
Anmol is now planning to pursue Computer Engineering at Stanford University. Meanwhile I’m still struggling to open a new tab on my computer.
Here’s wishing Anmol all the best. I’m just glad I’m not this kid’s neighbor.
Anmol started working on a search engine to submit at the Google Science Fair, which is conducted annually for students aged 13-18. The search engine Anmol created is 21% more accurate than Google on average and can be as high as 47% more accurate. The Class 10 pass out spent 2 months and about 60 hours of coding to develop this.
Which is just…
Anmol had this to say about his creation, “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.”For developing the awesome search engine, Anmol used
A computer with 1 GB free storage space
Python (The language not the snake) development environment
Spreadsheet program
And access to Google and NewYork Times
He limited his search to New York times articles and created multiple
fictitious users with different web history and interests. Yea, we’ve
made our fake profiles too.He then fed the data to both Google and his own search engine and compared the results. You can see his results here
Anmol claims that Google’s personalized search depends on factors such as App installed in a person’s phone, location, browsing history etc. Which according to him is only one side of the coin. Anmol says that his search engine understands what a user would like by digging into the context of the text before matching it with personality of the user, and showing search results .
Anmol is now planning to pursue Computer Engineering at Stanford University. Meanwhile I’m still struggling to open a new tab on my computer.
Here’s wishing Anmol all the best. I’m just glad I’m not this kid’s neighbor.
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