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RE: Stop list

To: "'namazu-users-en@namazu.org'" <namazu-users-en@namazu.org>
Subject: RE: Stop list
From: Philip S Tellis <philip@konark.ncst.ernet.in>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 19:36:28 +0530 (IST)
Reply-to: namazu-users-en@namazu.org
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105031934440.26318-100000@bigears.ncst.ernet.in>
On Thu, 3 May 2001, DEVOS BASTIEN wrote:

what's do you mean by stop-list ? 

When one enters a query in a search engine, there are several words that
are irrelevant to the query eg: a, an, I, the.  These words are very
common, and occur in almost all pages that have been indexed.  This is
called a stop list, and any word in the query that exists in the stop
list is removed before doing the search.

Philip



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