Words that appear so frequently in records that a keyword search system does not search for them. Some common stopwords are: A, BY, FROM, OF, TO, AN, FOR, IN, THE, WITH, AND, NOT, OR, SAME. Avoid use of all stopwords when construction your keyword search statement.
Words you omit from a search because they are so common that they have no informational value. Stopwords are not indexed and are therefore ignored by the system if you type them. See stopword lists for keyword searches and for derived corporate name searches. Examples:, an, and, or, and the. Stopwords are identified in a limited number of indexes in selected databases.