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"Seventeen-year-old prodigy Nicholas Schiefer won the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award in the category of computer science for his idea of a search engine algorithm that does \"micro searches.\" Basically this type of search grabs data from obscure social media sources like Facebook posts, tweets and other small bits of data to provide more robust searches. \nIt's no secret that there many young entrepreneurs in the tech and social media space. Mark Zuckerberg created the first version of Facebook in his Harvard dorm room at age 19. \nThe blog Dvice posted another video interview with Schiefer. In it, the Ontario teen said searching for information in short documents is difficult because you don't have a lot of words, and therefore keywords, that searches pick up on. \nThe key part of the algorithm he developed, he said in the video, was something called a Markov chain. \n\"The crux of my technique was to try and identify statistical relationships between words and use those to get better search results,\" he said. \nMaybe one day we'll see him manning Google.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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