Query suggestions from logs

DesignMedium40 minGoogle and Microsoft style

Your task

Design a query-suggestion (search-as-you-type) system for a large web search engine that suggests full queries from prefixes, learned from aggregate query logs. Scale: billions of queries/day feeding the suggestions, p99 under 50ms, suggestions must reflect trending queries within hours, and must suppress offensive/illegal/PII-leaking completions.

It covers

  • Query suggestion
  • Log mining
  • Abuse