[thelist] What Are Stop Words?

[Hassan Schroeder]

Jono Young wrote:

> [quote]
> Consider this sentence:

> This explanation is simplified, but the point is that using markers can 
> save a lot of disk space. 
> [/quote]
> 
> "... the point is that using markers..."
> The article does not explain where these "markers" should be used.

By people writing indexing software, not by content creators.

> Does the above mean that when writing Meta Tags, Alt tags, etc., that if 
> you do need to use a number of articles, such as "the" that it is better 
> to leave them out and replace then with a marker, such as *? 

Nope. :-)

HTH,
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