Project Description for Search Engine
Explore the fundamentals of search engine design, including efficient word storage, auto-completion, query parsing to validate word combinations, and search result ranking. Understand how to optimize and organize search results for better user experience and system reliability. Gain practical skills useful for coding interviews involving search engine algorithms and distributed system optimization.
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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 ...