Design Search for a Documentation Site · System Design Interview

Design Search for a Documentation SiteDesign the search box on a documentation site: a visitor types a few words and gets the pages that mention them, best matches first.What it has to do

Return the pages that contain the typed words

Order results so the best match is first

Show a short snippet of the page around the match

Scale

Pages on the site: 200 thousand

Searches per day: 2 million

Out of scope

Crawling other websites

Personalised results

Spelling correction

Voice and image search

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