Words you omit from a search. The system omits these words from indexing because they retrieve more records than the system can display and add no value to the subject content of the search. For example, a, an, and, the, and or.
Stopwords are very commonly used words that are normally excluded from automated searches. Examples: a, an, the, for, to, in, on, and, etc.
a frequently used word that, when encountered in a user question, is ignored
a small word that has little retrieval value such as "for," "a," "of," and "the
a very frequent word which usually is meaningless in queries and in documents because it appeared into too much documents
a word not indexed for keyword searching because it appears too frequently
a word such as "the" or "some" that is so common that it is considered to have zero semantic value
a word that has so many occurrences in a search engine's database that the search engine doesn't recognize it in a search
a word that is not to be indexed
a word that occurs so frequently that it is not useful for distinguishing one document from another
a word that the system ignores when running your search and retrieving documents
A word considered to have no value for indexing or retrieval purposes, and for which no entries are made in the INVERTED INDEX.
"a word which cannot be used as a search term on a particular database." (3) (Ex: a, an, the)
A word that is so common that it is not indexed by a database. "A", "an", "the" and all prepositions are examples. Do not include stop words when searching a topic.
