[Developers] Search query returning strange results

[Faye Li]

Hi,

There's a known bug with the released relevance server when it comes to 
queries where the type match is set to strict (which is the default case 
for /api/service/search). It treats the actual search string (in this 
case wildcard query "onion news") as optional. As a result, it finds 
topics of the right type that could match only part of "onion news" 
(including in anchor text of the topic's wikipedia article). This is 
addressed in the current codeline -- which is why Andi's machine did not 
return the bad results. :)

It should be released in a few weeks. Sorry for the inconvenience.

-- Faye


Andi Vajda wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008, Christopher Dummy wrote:
>
>   
>> Did something change with regards to search in this week?  I'm getting
>> back results I would not expect at all. I'm doing the search
>>
>>  onion news
>>
>> using:
>>
>> http://www.freebase.com/api/service/search?prefix=onion+news&type=/user/cotton/default_domain/internet_station&limit=50&escape=false
>>
>> I get back stations like  "Groove Salad". which as far as I can tell,
>> don't reference "onion" nor "news". Why is it returning those results?
>>     
>
> Interesting, I don't see this on the current relevance trunk. I don't get 
> any results.
>
> Andi..
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