> I was reading "Scaling Lucen and Solr" > (http://www.lucidimagination.com/Community/Hear-from-the-Experts/Articles/Scaling-Lucene-and-Solr/) > and I came across the section StopWords. > > In there it mentioned that its not recommended to remove > stop words at index > time. Why is this the case? Don't all the extraneous > stopwords bloat the > index and lead to less relevant results? Can someone please > explain this to > me. Thanks
There were a discussion about stopwords (remove them, not to remove them, or index them with CommonGramsFilterFactory) and good references in this thread. http://search-lucene.com/m/QvJtF1mIPP22/When+Stopword+Lists+Make+the+Difference
