Re: [htdig] Searches timing out. DB size??

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At 11:37 AM -0500 1/2/03, Geoff Hutchison wrote:

Common words honestly don't add much "information value" to a search, so
one workaround is to add some of the more common words on your site to the
"bad words" file.

I disagree entirely: common words are vital for phrase searching! The common word may be what distinguishes a phrase from many other terms, and if you don't have common words in the index, there's absolutely nothing that can be done. For example, if I search a site about enterprise software for 'web servers', I do not want file servers, list servers, print servers....

Avi
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