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Anmol Tukrel: 16-year-old designs better search engine than Google

Author : NewsGram Desk

Canada: Anmol Tukrel, a 16-year old Indian-Canadian, designed a search engine that claims to be 47% more accurate than Google and 21% more accurate on an average. Google, headed by Indian-origin CEO Sundar Pichai, is considered as the most ground-breaking technology of the 21st century; however the record seems to be on the verge to get broken.

The strangest thing is that Tukrel has just completed his 10th grade and he took just a few months to design the search engine and approximately 60 hours to code the engine. He designed the engine as a part of a project to submit to the Google Science Fair, which is global online competition.

During an interview with reporters, Tukrel said, "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."

Tukrel took help from a python-language development environment, a spreadsheet program and access to Google, to design the new search engine. He added, "My computer teacher was pretty impressed with the project. I skipped a year in computer science, so they knew I was good, but maybe not so good." Tukrel is a student of Holy Trinity School in Toronto and learned to code in the third grade.

Tukrel limited the search queries to news articles from The Newyork Times, to test the accuracy of his search engine. According to Tukrel, his new search engine is better as it uses location, apps, browsing history as well as understands the context and meaning, and directs those matching on screen.

Tukrel wants to study computer science at Stanford University and develop a news aggregator. He also handles a company 'Tacocat Computers' through his parents consent.

According to the report, Tukrel was in India for a two-week internship program at Bengaluru-based Adtech Firm IceCream Labs. If his search engine can be reliable, we may have a path-breaking search engine which redefines the way we access technology. (Inputs from Agencies)

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