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Netflix

Feature 1: Group Similar Titles

Problem Statement

Suppose you are building an app like Netflix and the content library contains the following titles: "duel", "dule", "speed", "spede", "deul", "cars". How would you efficiently implement a functionality so that if a user misspells speed as spede, they are shown the correct title?

We want to split the list of titles into sets of words so that all words in a set are anagrams. In the above list, there are three sets: {"duel", "dule", "deul"}, {"speed", "spede"}, and {"cars"}. Search results should comprise all members of the set that the search string is found in. We should pre-compute these sets instead of forming them when the user searches for a title.

Similar problem on LeetCode: Group Anagrams

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Group Anagrams - LeetCode Daily Challenge
Problem Statement Given an array of strings strs, group the anagrams together. You can return the answer in any order. An Anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. Example 1 Input: strs

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