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.
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