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Google never had stop words. The original lexicon only included the most popular 14 million words (for fast bucketing), and rare words were processed specially.
by falsedan 9y ago
Google never had stop words. The original lexicon only included the most popular 14 million words (for fast bucketing), and rare words were processed specially.
- logicallee 9y agoIt did - I had to use plus signs to force them to use them. Normally it ignored those words. I am fairly certain of this detail. I must have found a list of those words - how else would I have found the string "from what it is to a"? I had a list of its stop words. Edit: for proof, here's someone's screenshot of the same - http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2270/2201828252_45a32da7f4.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2270/2201828252_45a32da7f4.jp... As you can see, it is Google saying it is ignoring a word because it is too common. It has a list of every site that has that, but that list is huge and it doesn't usually use it.
- falsedan 9y agoStop words are words that are ignored when indexing, not when querying. Since you did find a result, those words must have been indexed.