stopwords

But it seems, on April 1st, USAID and Popline adjusted their search function to add a few stopwords and some researchers noticed.

Archive 2008-04-01 Dana 2008

Although LJseek does seem to regard 3 letters or less as stopwords, even if trying an exact phrase search.

November 24th, 2006 curufea 2006

During filtration commonly used terms and terms that do not add any semantic meaning (stopwords) are removed.

The Evolution of the Press Release Brian Solis 2005

Google's changed its stopwords (words that are ignored as part of a search due to their ubiquity in language):

Boing Boing: April 14, 2002 - April 20, 2002 Archives 2002

Technical Bulletin 251: Connexion WorldCat Searching is now available in HTML and PDFTB 251 covers changes in search syntax, stopwords, and indexes for WorldCat searching in Connexion.

Archive 2004-11-07 David Bigwood 2004

Technical Bulletin 251: Connexion WorldCat Searching is now available in HTML and PDFTB 251 covers changes in search syntax, stopwords, and indexes for WorldCat searching in Connexion.

OCLC David Bigwood 2004

Create powerful scripts by accepting file uploads in the HTML forms, dump the field values to different databases, perform different types of field validation to ensure the quality of the data, secure your forms against spammers by using captchas, stopwords and more

Softpedia - Windows - All 2010

Create powerful scripts by accepting file uploads in the HTML forms, dump the field values to different databases, perform different types of field validation to ensure the quality of the data, secure your forms against spammers by using captchas, stopwords and more

Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Mac OS 2010

It was full of FUD and misinformation -- somehow stopwords are bad?

reddit.com: what's new online! 2009

I have a stopwords list as well as a wordforms list (eg. auto = car) that both really help my results.

reddit.com: what's new online! 2009