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Student creates search engine for the over-50 crowd

Necessity as they say is the mother of invention. A local Germantown teen proves the adage true with a new search engine aimed at aging baby boomers and earlier generations.

Here's an excerpt:

"Sunmee Huh does not want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.

When she created the search engine Good50, her intention was not to strike it rich or create an Internet phenomenon like Facebook, which Zuckerberg founded. Huh has little interest in pursuing computer science as a career.

All she wanted to do was help her family.

The soft-spoken Richard Montgomery High School junior saw the difficulties her 82-year-old grandfather, Sam Auh, a stroke survivor, endured when using the Web.

"It was difficult for him to see the font," said Huh, 16, of Germantown. "He had trouble telling the difference between regular search results and sponsored ones.""

Read the entire article here.

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