Your question is Places-to-Visit Recommendation System. Take a moment with it on the right.
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Design a Places-to-Visit Recommendation System similar to Google Maps, including features for category filtering, nearby locations, and user's past interactions.
Asked in the Round 4: ML System Design stage. Explain how you would clarify requirements, select retrieval and ranking approaches, serve recommendations, and evaluate the system. Discuss location-aware personalization, cold start, data freshness, latency, and failure handling.