The Freebase Blog » Search http://blog.freebase.com A blog for data geeks, application developers and interested civilians Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:29:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Tip: Type constrained searches http://blog.freebase.com/2008/06/27/tip-type-constrained-searches/ http://blog.freebase.com/2008/06/27/tip-type-constrained-searches/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:41:22 +0000 danm http://blog.freebase.com/?p=228 There’s a little known feature of the autocomplete search box in the Freebase header — its that you can pass along the type along with the string you’re looking for and it will limit your search to topics of that type.

For instance, say you are looking for any of the following:

If you simply type ‘Michael Jackson’ into the search box, you won’t find these results listed in auto-complete because they aren’t the 10 most relevant results for that string matching any type in the system. But there’s a nifty convention you can use to work around this…

Try inputting any of the following:

You’ll find that results in auto-complete and in search results are limited to matches of the type you specified. Enjoy!

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