Web Search Engine — System Design Interview Practice
Design a web search engine like Google that can index billions of web pages and return relevant results quickly. Work through the requirements, architecture trade-offs, and an interactive design review.
Requirements and concepts to consider
- Crawl and index billions of web pagesRequirement
- Return relevant search results quicklyRequirement
- Handle billions of search queries per dayRequirement
- Support different types of content (text, images, videos)Requirement
- Provide search suggestions and autocompleteRequirement
- Ranking algorithm for result relevanceRequirement
- Handle typos and synonymsRequirement
- searchConcept to explore
- indexingConcept to explore
- crawlingConcept to explore
- rankingConcept to explore
- distributed systemsConcept to explore