Design a Large-Scale Polite Web Crawler

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Design a polite distributed web crawler for roughly ten billion pages and periodic recrawls. Cover a host-aware frontier, robots enforcement, deduplication, traps, durable ownership, recovery, DNS, and 24-hour capacity bottlenecks.

Design a Large-Scale Polite Web Crawler

Company: Google

Role: Software Engineer

Category: System Design

Difficulty: medium

Interview Round: Onsite

Overview: Design a polite distributed web crawler for roughly ten billion pages and periodic recrawls. Cover a host-aware frontier, robots enforcement, deduplication, traps, durable ownership, recovery, DNS, and 24-hour capacity bottlenecks.

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Aug 6, 2026
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