On Wednesday 10 June 2009 06:54:03 Daniel Cheng wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Evan Daniel<evanbd at gmail.com> wrote: > > On my (incomplete) spider index, the index file for the word "the" (it > > indexes no other words) is 17MB. ?This seems rather large. ?It might > > make sense to have the spider not even bother creating an index on a > > handful of very common words (the, be, to, of, and, a, in, I, etc). > > Of course, this presents the occasional difficulty: > > http://bash.org/?514353 ?I think I'm in favor of not indexing common > > words even so. > > Yes, it should ignore common words. > This is called "stopword" in search engine termology.
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