[thelist] What Are Stop Words?

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From: "Faustino Núñez Hernández" <faustinonunezhernandez at yahoo.es>
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Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 8:48 PM
Subject: [thelist] What Are Stop Words?


> A general definition for stop words would be a list of words you don't
want
> to be considered when making a search , within text information . Stop
> words are never present in your search results .
>
> The opposite would be , of course , a list of words according to which
you
> want to search text . It's called ' a pick list ' . Every time you use a
> search engine , like Google , you normally give a pick list (the group of
> words you're looking for) , and sometimes a stop list (words preceeded
with
> ' - ' symbol) .
>
> Google's predefined stop words ( slang words ) are not actually stop
words
> , because stop words never appear in your search results ; but slang
words
> may appear in Google's results . You're not allowed to use this slang
words
> for searching unless you use the ' + ' symbol .
>
>