System design interview question
"Design a news aggregator like Google News. It ingests articles from tens of thousands of publishers, groups the ones covering the same story together, ranks them, and shows each user a personalized front page. Breaking news should appear within minutes."
clustering near-duplicate content in real time, which is the distinctive part — five hundred outlets publish the same story and the product's value is showing it once with sources, not five hundred times. Around that sit ingestion from unreliable third parties, freshness-dominant ranking, and personalization.
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