[Developers] Search Query

[Christopher Dummy]

Ah, i can see it now in Wikipedia the entry about sister stations. I guess I
was looking at the Freebase entry for, but didn't see the KNBR listed with
KSAN. Looks like in the UI the wikipedia entry gets cut off, and I didn't
see any links between the stations.

That makes more sense. Thanks for the information!

On Dec 14, 2007 1:37 PM, Faye Li <faye at metaweb.com> wrote:

> Christopher,
>
> Topic name is just one of many things that are considered by search.
> Other examples include topic alias and Wikipedia article, if there is
> one. This allows users to do queries like "he who must not be named" and
> get "Lord Voldemort" as the top result.
>
> The first topic is the image for the "107.7 The Bone" station, topic
> "/topic/en/ksan-fm" is the topic for that station, topic
> "/topic/en/knbr" shows up because it's a sister-station of "The Bone",
> and the last one in your result, "/topic/en/kfjc" shows up apparently
> because it had  competed with "The Bone" as a radio station, with shared
> personal and a tangled history.
>
> -- Faye
>
>
> Christopher Dummy wrote:
> > I'm just wondering how the Search Query determines what to return. I
> > know it will do some thing based on the name. Does it also do things
> > that are related somehow? Where relatedness might just be similar
> > types? The query I'm looking at is:
> >
> >
> http://www.freebase.com/api/service/search?query=bone&type=/user/cotton/default_domain/broadcast
> > <
> http://www.freebase.com/api/service/search?query=bone&type=/user/cotton/default_domain/broadcast
> >
> >
> >
> > There is a radio station called, "107.7 The bone", and it shows up as
> > the first query. But there are some other stations that also show up,
> > and I cannot find any reference in them to "bone". So it is a little
> > surprising that they show up in the search results.
> >
> > Anyone have a good idea of why?
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Cotton
> > Zing/Dell Engineer
> > http://zing.net/
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Christopher Cotton
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