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Anmol Tukrel: Meet the 10th grader whose high

project is 47% more accurate than Google
By Krithika Krishnamurthy, ET Bureau | 20 Aug, 2015, 04.00AM IST

BENGALURU: Watch out Sundar Pichai. There's a high school project that tops Google's
main cash cow, the search engine.
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, who just completed his tenth grade, said he took a couple of months to design it,
and about 60 hours to code the engine, as part of his submission into Google Science Fair,
a global online competition that is open to students aged 13 to 18 years.

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"I thought I would do something in the personalised 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,"
said Tukrel, who was in India for a two-week internship programme at Bengaluru-based
adtech firm IceCream Labs.

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Tukrel's tinkering kit: A computer with at least 1 gigabyte of free storage space, a pythonlanguage development environment, a spreadsheet program and access to Google and
New York Times.

To test the accuracy of each search engine, he limited his search query to this year's news articles from
several fictitious users with different interests and corresponding web histories. Tukrel then fed this informa
interest-based search engine. Finally, the results from each search engine were compared.

Today, personalisation is dependent on factors like one's location, browsing history, and the affinity to the k
their phone. That's just one part of the equation. Tukrel claims his algorithm solves the other side of the eq
user would like before it serves up the results by dwelling deep into the content of the text, understanding
before matching it to a user's personality, and throwing up the result.

"For someone to look at a successful Google product and attempt to go one level up, it's astonishing," said

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cofounder of Ice-Cream Labs, and former marketing manager of Myntra. Tukrel, the student of Holy
learnt to code in his third grade, and subsequently picked up on mathematics and coding.

"My computer teacher was pretty impressed with the project. I skipped a year in computer science, so they
not so good," said Tukrel, who has put up a link to the test cases online on http://bit.ly/1FYRNxl for anyone

Tukrel submitted his paper to the International High School Journal of Science last month, and hopes to st
Stanford University. But before that, he wants to develop a news aggregator based on this technology, and
marketing agencies as well. Would he become a fellow at Paypal founder Peter Theil's foundation, where o
college to try an idea?
"To be honest, it's incredibly stupid to drop out," said Tukrel. "It's very arrogant to think that your idea is so
learn anything."

But, Tukrel also runs a company, which has a palindromic name: Tacocat Computers. But, is he legally allo
"Yes. You just need parental consent."
And, what next?
"Eleventh grade."
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