Project Description for Search Engine
Explore how to build key components of a search engine including efficient word storage, auto-complete, query segmentation, search ranking, result organization, service optimization, and fault tolerance. This lesson helps you understand designing and implementing features that mirror real-world search engine functionality, preparing you for similar 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 any search engine’s word searching, storage handling, and document fetching functionalities.
Statement
For this project, imagine you are developing a search engine at a ...