Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A frequently used word, such as a or the, that is not indexed in webpages and thus is not used in search engine queries.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
stop word .
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Examples
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You can even specify a own stylesheet, select your stopword language and set maximum output of words. have fun
Profile: TagCloud Michael Arrington 2005
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In fact, you can search for stopword standbys like a and www and also get results, though none as dramatic as a search for the.
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The no longer counts, strictly speaking, as a stopword.
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Also add stopword list so that short words inside full forms can be ignored. pogrep - I-- accelerator = "~" -- search = source - e "\bv. +\bm.+\bl" source. po vml. po
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Also add stopword list so that short words inside full forms can be ignored. pogrep - I-- accelerator = "~" -- search = source - e "\bv. +\bm.+\bl" source. po vml. po
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· External file-based configuration of stopword lists, synonym lists, and protected word lists
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But the MediaWiki installation still uses the giant stopword list.
Classifieds, Shopping Malls and More - Craigs List News and Articles 2009
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They must have fixed this in the last two weeks, because it used to look like this: Stopwords Are Not Match Words For example, searching on the Tolkien Gateway wiki for the words elves well come is a problem, because the words: well and come are on the stopword list from hell.
Classifieds, Shopping Malls and More - Craigs List News and Articles 2009
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But, contrary to the message, specifying a search with an allowed word and a stopword or two, such as surprise from behind will match all articles containing the word surprise, without checking that the article also includes from and behind.
Classifieds, Shopping Malls and More - Craigs List News and Articles 2008
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But the MediaWiki installation still uses the giant stopword list.
Classifieds, Shopping Malls and More - Craigs List News and Articles 2008
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