Teen Claims His Search Engine Is 47% More Accurate Than Google

According to a report filed on The Google/articleshow/48553228.cms”>Times of India, a 16-year-old Indian-origin techie from Canada has built a search engine and claims that he has made it 47 per cent more accurate than what Google’s churns out in its search results.

Interestingly, the search engine is a part of Tukrel’s project submission for Google Science Fair, which is a science competition for students aged in between 13 and 18.

Tukrel claims that it took him a couple of months to design the search engine and about 60 hours to code the egine – work of a genius!

For completing the same, Tukrel took few months and assistance from the Python language development environment as well as a spreadsheet program along with Google access. Tukrel claims that his search engine is about 21 percent more accurate than Google on an average, and to prove it he created a scenario wherein he created a bunch of fictitious user profiles with different interests and backgrounds and searched news stores from The New York Times. In a conversation with TOI, he revealed that earlier he thought to do something that can personalize the search space.

Google is known for its way of personalising the web search results by using a person’s location or browsing history to serve relevant results. “But when I realised Google already does it, I tried taking it to the next level”, said Tukrel, with ET Times.

Tukrel is a student of Holy Trinity School in Toronto, and learned to code in the third grade.

Tukrel has submitted his paper, of research and his findings, to the global High School Journal of Science. Not only is he running his own company, ‘Tacocat Computers’, but also looking forward to developing some news aggregator and get it licensed to good marketing agencies. Would he become a fellow at Paypal founder Peter Theil’s foundation, where one is required to drop out of college to try an idea?