Amazon Interview Question
Software Engineer / Developers(1) A search tool to display matching text and that allows the user to scroll through the text may be useful.
(2) Can to text mining to categorize the books based on their content, so the search time can be reduced. Use the database a s a training corpus.
(3) I might start something like O'Reilly Safari bookshelf and make the books searchable. I am not sure whether I will be allowed to do this as I dont have the rights to sell.
any other creative products ?
1) I would implement a search engine based only for e-books using TF*IDF (Term Frequency times Inverted Document Frequency).
2) I may furthur continue adding categorised searching too... based on relevance factor
3) If allowed collaborate witha a company like Amazon and start selling the e-books, as to lure customers show them one chapter of the book they want....
It is like a DB design question.
- someone July 26, 2005Before designing a DB , we have to know what features will be develop.