Project Description for Search Engine
Explore how to design and implement key features of a search engine, including efficient word storage, autocomplete functionality, query segmentation, search result ranking, fault tolerance, and workload optimization. Understand how these elements come together to build a robust search system and prepare you for related coding interview challenges.
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Introduction
A search engine is a software that lets users search on the web. Search engines use a database of web pages that they collect using bots. The user’s query is run on the database, and the results are fetched. Some of the most commonly used search engines are Google, Bing, Baidu, Yahoo!, Duckduckgo, etc. All of these search engines contain complex, underlying algorithms for optimized searching and web page ranking for search results.
The scenarios and problems discussed in this chapter also relate to ...