[Developers] MQLRead Query to Replicate Search Service

[Andi Vajda]

On Mon, 18 May 2009, Shawn Simister wrote:

> What about using UMQL to send a batch of queries to the relevance engine?
> Something like this? I think that would be equivalent to the what you'd get
> from the search API.

Like this ? http://tinyurl.com/qsqn7q

This was the "but we're working on it" part I was hinting at in my earlier 
reply on this thread. Needless to say, this is experimental, comes without 
any warranty, is likely to change, etc... 
http://search.labs.freebase.com/api/service/emql?help, is a good place for 
learning more about it.

Feedback is certainly welcome !

Andi..

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> Shawn
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> Tom Morris wrote:
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> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 5:44 AM, James Alexander Levy
> <jamesalexanderlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'd like to run several queries against the search service with a single
> HTTP request - you know, for efficiency and all that. Because there's no way
> to do this (right?) I'll have to use MQLRead for its query envelope, but I'm
> not sure how to perform a read request that exactly mimics the search
> service.
> 
> 
> You can't do this because you don't have all the information available
> to you that the search service uses.  In particular it uses anchor
> text from Wikipedia articles in addition to things that you can get at
> from MQL (names & aliases).
> 
> If latency is your concern, have you considered posting the requests
> asynchronously and pipelining your processing?
> 
> Tom
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