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I searched 'Queen' knowing it has several meanings and I was curious to how it deals with this. The rock band and football club came up first.

Then I searched random things like; dog, cat, London, weather.

The vast majority of searches lead to music results even when you wouldn't expect it like the latter 2 KW's listed above. The results dont seem overly useful but glad to see people playing in this space as Google seems to be turning into one giant ad and so I like to see work being done in this area



Hey - I work on this. The main areas of the BBC that are using our Linked Data Platform at the moment are News, Sport and Music, which would explain the results you get for "Queen". As more teams in the organisation start using our system, you should see a wider variety of data accessible through the site.

We know the search isn't the greatest, and that's something we'd like to improve.

There's a blog post that might explain a bit more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/posts/Opening-up-the-BBC...




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