Google Search
One system, end to end: 9 boards and 9 narrated episodes, in order.
9 boards
9 videos
2 lessons
Watch in order
01Google Search architecture, end to end: two systems joined by one index
2:11
02The crawler: fetching is the easy ten percent
1:55
03The inverted index: flip the data and a scan becomes a lookup
1:53
04Scatter-gather: one query, a thousand leaves, and the slowest one wins
2:14
05Ranking: hundreds of signals, fused into one number
2:15
06Freshness: from a rebuild that took weeks to an index that changes in minutes
1:56
07The papers underneath: a filesystem, a compute model, and a sorted map
1:53
08Beyond ten blue links: the page that answers before you click
1:51
09Google Search, the whole system on one canvas
2:26
Boards
- 00The Map▶ video
- 01The Crawler▶ video
- 02The Inverted Index▶ video
- 03Query Serving▶ video
- 04Ranking▶ video
- 05Freshness & Tiered Serving▶ video
- 06Storage & Compute Infra▶ video
- 07Beyond Ten Blue Links▶ video
- 08Everything▶ video