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Young Scientist Builds a Better Search Engine
- mirceagoia 14y agoSeventeen-year-old Nicholas Schiefer is on his way to developing the next Google for the social-media world. The Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award winner sits down with digits to explain.
- mdaniel 14y agoSounds like an interesting idea; I hope he publishes more details. I also hope the next interviewer is not so detached.
- Cyndre 14y agoI actually have a bot that has been doing this for several years. It stores word relations and keeps track of what words are used with others. It then can rank potential words that it has seen from your query before and use those as a subject to build a sentence from or as a highly targeted query for searching.
- dragonbonheur 14y agoHe looks a lot like Bill Gates when he was young.
- brandoncapecci 14y agoYou should rephrase the title to "young scientist begins learning about search engines". It's not the first time I've been teased by the promise of improved search and I'm always disappointed with the realization how infinitesimal the odds of unseating Google are. As such, anything worth mentioning is going to come from a PHD - not a kid who took an AI class a year early (I don't know anyone moderately interested in computer science who hasn't heard of Markov chains). Although they didn't mention anything specific about his algorithm in the video of which I'm still curious in seeing, I'm certain it's not any faster or more relevant than any other other basic search (not to be a debbie downer, there's simply smarter minds who've worked far longer on the same problem).
- Morcane 14y agohere we go again with the 'you need a phd to do anything worthwhile' .... You know what...we have all these bright minds discussing how it could be improved. This guy BUILT something.