System Design: Quora

Introduction

Information sharing has become a norm using the Internet. However, information seeking can become a daunting task especially because of the expansion of the web. Search engines help us dig for information across the web. Google, for instance, is intelligent enough to answer questions by extracting information from web pages. While search engines have their advantages, seeking information sometimes is not straightforward. Take a look at the illustration below to understand how information-seeking through search engines is compared with information-seeking through humans.