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.
Personality-oriented
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 TheNew 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 .
