[Data-modeling] searchable strings

John Giannandrea jg at metaweb.com
Fri Mar 13 07:09:37 UTC 2009


Matthew Chan wrote:
> Is there way to represent a string in such a way that it will be
> searchable by the freebase search for a given substring?

If I understand your question, you have two options.

In MQL, there is pattern matching on text fields, see
	http://mql.freebaseapps.com/ch03.html#textconstraints

There is also a search API, which will return partial matches
	http://api.freebase.com/api/service/search?help=1

-jg



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