[Developers] Search Query

[Arthur van Hoff]

Hi Faye,

It would be really nice to be able to turn the relevance off. For
example, I would like to be able to search for a name or alias in my
application with high relevance, and not get any of the results that are
hits from Wikipedia. I find that the Wikipedia generated matches are
confusing and often do not improve the search results.

In general I think that matches on a name/alias should always be ranked
higher than Wikipedia matches.

Thanks.

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From: developers-bounces at freebase.com
[mailto:developers-bounces at freebase.com] On Behalf Of Faye Li
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 11:37 AM
To: For discussions about MQL,Freebase API and apps built on Freebase
Subject: Re: [Developers] Search Query

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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