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'''Anurag Acharya''' is an Indian-American engineer known for co-founding [[Google Scholar]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Van Noorden |first=Richard |date=2014-11-07 |title=Google Scholar pioneer on search engine’s future |language=en |work=Nature News |url=http://www.nature.com/news/google-scholar-pioneer-on-search-engine-s-future-1.16269 |access-date=2021-04-01 |doi=10.1038/nature.2014.16269}}</ref> of which he has been described as the "key inventor". As of 2014, Acharya held the title of Distinguished Engineer at [[Google]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Levy |first=Steven |date=2014-10-17 |title=The Gentleman Who Made Scholar |language=en-us |work=Wired |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/10/the-gentleman-who-made-scholar/ |access-date=2021-04-01 |issn=1059-1028}}</ref> He and his Google colleague Alex Verstak co-founded Google Scholar in 2004. Acharya got the idea for the project years earlier, when he was an undergraduate at the [[Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur]] and had difficulty easily accessing scholarly literature.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Matham |first=Adarsh |date=2014-11-15 |title=Tech Guru Anurag Acharya |work=New Indian Express |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/tech/2014/nov/15/Tech-Guru-Anurag-Acharya-682867.html |access-date=2021-04-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Markoff |first=John |date=2004-11-18 |title=Google Plans New Service for Scientists and Scholars |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/technology/google-plans-new-service-for-scientists-and-scholars.html |access-date=2021-04-01 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2016-07-31 |title=Ajit Jain, Anurag Acharya given Distinguished Alumnus Awards |language=en |work=India Today |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/ajit-jain-anurag-acharya-given-distinguished-alumnus-awards-676242-2016-07-31 |access-date=2021-04-01}}</ref><br />
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