Ghaziabad student crowned first world search champ by Yahoo

Yahoo! India crowned Rohit Rajpal, a BTech student from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, as the 'first world search champion.'

The world search championship is a simple yet innovative online game where users have to answer 10 questions in the shortest possible time and were prompted to use search to find the right answers, Yahoo said in a statement.

"I have played several quizzes but this was a unique experience and important factors to win were quick fingers on the keyboard and a great IQ," Rajpal said.

Nitin Mathur, director (Marketing), Yahoo! India, said half a million people from India and overseas participated in the championship.

The contest witnessed a large number of quiz aficionados book marking the site to play it multiple times. Top 200 ranked contestants played the contest 40 times on an average to improve their scores, it said.