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Web search involves matching many pages with many queries

Parag Agrawal describes web search as a matching problem involving hundreds of billions of pages and queries over time.

Parag Agrawal·Published Aug 25, 2026

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Parallel’s Parag Agrawal: Building a New Web for AI Agents

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So you have hundreds of billions of pages and hundreds of billions of queries over time, and you need to figure out how to matchmake across these two.

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One way to think about it is it’s a billion-to-billion matching problem, right?

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