[Developers] Search Query

[Ed Laurent]

I second that for the UI too. Some topics won't come up even with a
good search name that is relevant to their types because there is so
much Wiki clutter that comes up first.

-Ed


On Dec 14, 2007 5:06 PM, Arthur van Hoff <AVH at zing.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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