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Design near-duplicate video detection at scale

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GoogleSystem designLast asked Jan 2026

Detect when an uploaded video is a near copy of one already on a very large platform (re-encoded, cropped, trimmed). Cover how videos are fingerprinted or embedded, how candidates are found quickly among billions, how matches are verified, and how the system keeps up with the upload rate.

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