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A 16 Year Old Kid Challenges Google, Says His Search Engine Is 47% More Accurate

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Google is where we can find any information regarding anything withing seconds. Google is the undisputed king of search engines! It is said to have one of the fastest, most accurate search results as compared to other search engines that exist. Is there any other search engine which is as fast and accurate more than Google??? 
The answer is Yes !!

A kid has challenged the authority of Google. Sixteen-year-old Anmol Tukrel, an Indian-origin Canadian citizen has designed a personalised search engine that claims to be as high as 47% more accurate than Google and about 21% more accurate on an average.

Tukrel is just a standard 10 student and has been working on the project for just a couple of months. He has taken around 60 hours code and build a search engine, which is a part of the submission to the Google Science Fair. The Google competition is applicable for those between ages 13 and 18. Its an impressive feat for a tenth grader and pretty bold claims to challenge the search engine king.

According to reports, when Tukrel was in India for a short internship in Bangalore, that's when he came to know about Google already having a personalized search engine, he planned to take it to a next level. Tukrel’s development kit included only a computer with at least 1GB of free storage space, a python-language development environment, a spreadsheet program and access to Google and New York Times.

Anmol Tukrel, who has just completed his tenth grade stated that he took a few months to design this project and approximately 60 hours to code the engine. He said, “I thought I would do something in the personalized search space. It was the most genius thing ever. But when I realised Google already does it, I tried taking it to the next level.”
Tukrel’s creation are not only limited to this search engine, he also runs a company through his parents’ consent called Tacocat Computers and had created several fictitious users with different interests and corresponding web histories to build the pile of information.

Unlike most websites that use a person’s location or browsing history to serve relevant results, Tukrel claims that his search engine tries to show the most relevant content by mapping it to a person’s personality.
His development kit included only a computer with at least 1GB of free storage space, a python-language development environment, a spreadsheet program and access to Google and New York Times. The report points out that to test the accuracy of his search engine, Tukrel limited the search query to this year’s articles from the New York Times.
He claims that his search engine is better than Google because not only does it take into account location or browsing history, but also tries to understand context and meaning. According to the report, Tukrel was in India for a two-week internship programme at Bengaluru-based adtech firm IceCream Labs.
Tukrel learnt coding at the age of 3. He was quoted as saying, "My computer teacher was pretty impressed with the project. I skipped a year in computer science, so they knew I was good, but may be not so good."
“I thought I would do something in the personalized search space. It was the most genius thing ever. But when I realised Google already does it, I tried taking it to the next level.”
“For someone to look at a successful Google product and attempt to go one level up, it’s astonishing,” said Sanjay Ramakrishnan, co-founder of Ice-Cream Labs, and former marketing manager of Myntra. Tukrel, the student of Holy Trinity School in Toronto, said he learnt to code in his third grade, and subsequently picked up on mathematics and coding.

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