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Student Created "Better" Search Engine Than Google

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Mark Melin
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How high is Google’s “moat” guarding its fortress holding on to their top position in search?

A 16-year old Indian boy apparently has bested Google at its own game – search – and is submitting his personalized search engine, said to be 21 percent more accurate overall, to the Google science fair. Anmol Tukrel, an Indian-born Canadian citizen, cannot legally drink alcohol or vote, but he can challenge the most powerful search engine enterprise in the world.

Student Created "Better" Search Engine Than Google

Personalized search engine claims to generate, on average, 21 percent better results that Google

Tukrel claims to have developed...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.