Agreed. Here is an article from 13 years ago when I accidentally turned on stopword removal at Netflix. It caused bad problems.
https://observer.wunderwood.org/2007/05/31/do-all-stopword-queries-matter/ Infoseek was not removing stopwords when I joined them in 1996. Since then, I’ve always left stopwords in the index. Removing stop words is a desperate speed/hack hack from the days of 16-bit machines. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Apr 24, 2020, at 5:44 AM, David Hastings <hastings.recurs...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > you should never use the stopword filter unless you have a very specific > purpose > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 8:33 AM Steven White <swhite4...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> What is, if any, the impact of stopwords in to my search ranking quality? >> Will my ranking improve is I do not index stopwords? >> >> I'm trying to figure out if I should use the stopword filter or not. >> >> Thanks in advanced. >> >> Steve >>
