Recently on webmaster world someone was asking for a list of stop
words, and upon checking Google I couldn't find any available so I
have released our lists for free use. Should anyone require them.

There are several lists:

Prepositions, Adjectives, Adverbs and Verbs, all available as separate
ASCII lists (ZIPed up), and sorted into alphabetical order.

These can be downloaded, along with other free lists, from:

http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/xfree.htm

Matt

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you wrote:

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Recently on webmaster world someone was asking for a list of stop
words, and upon checking Google I couldn't find any available so I
have released our lists for free use. Should anyone require them.

There are several lists:

Prepositions, Adjectives, Adverbs and Verbs, all available as separate
ASCII lists (ZIPed up), and sorted into alphabetical order.

These can be downloaded, along with other free lists, from:

http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/xfree.htm

Matt
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Are stop words relevant anymore? I read recently that google is now indexing everything..
including stop words


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On Sun, 22 May 2005 22:10:05 +0200, Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:

> Recently on webmaster world someone was asking for a list of stop
> words, and upon checking Google I couldn't find any available so I

What ARE stop words in a first place?

Best,
Borek
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program for pH calculations
CASC - Concentration and Solution Calculator
program for solution preparation and concentration conversions

Borek wrote:

> What ARE stop words in a first place?

Commonly used short words that search engines don't index.

http://www.google.com/search?q=define:Stop+Words

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In <1116821071.207468.17850@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups. com> Fritz M <nospam@masoner.net> wrote:
>Borek wrote:
>
>> What ARE stop words in a first place?
>
>Commonly used short words that search engines don't index.
>
>http://www.google.com/search?q=define:Stop+Words
>
>RFM
>
>
except that google is now indexing everything...

http://www.google.com/search?q=and&s...utf-8&oe=utf-8

Results 1 - 10 of about 4,620,000,000 for and. (0.14 seconds)

the face of SE's are changing

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On Mon, 23 May 2005 06:04:31 +0200, Fritz M <nospam@masoner.net> wrote:

>> What ARE stop words in a first place?
>
> Commonly used short words that search engines don't index.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=define:Stop+Words

Thnx. I didn't know they have a name even if I was aware of their
existence.

Best,
Borek
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BATE - Base Acid Titration and Equilibria
program for pH calculations
CASC - Concentration and Solution Calculator
program for solution preparation and concentration conversions

> These can be downloaded, along with other free lists, from:
>
> http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/xfree.htm

What should we do with these lists of words? :|

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Justin.
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Justin Sane wrote:

> What should we do with these lists of words? :|

Even though they're now being indexed, you probably don't want to
select something with 4 trillion hits as an important keyword for your
site :-)

RFM

"Fritz M" <nospam@masoner.net> wrote in message
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>
> Justin Sane wrote:
>
>> What should we do with these lists of words? :|
>
> Even though they're now being indexed, you probably don't want to
> select something with 4 trillion hits as an important keyword for your
> site :-)


Google isn't using the words in search queries like "football and baseball".
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...l+and+baseball .
It states the *and* operator isn't necessary. Of course if you use just
*and* it will list results.

Stacey

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In <9Gnke.1$8A4.0@lakeread07> "Stacey" <http://www.staceyssimplestuff.com> wrote:
>Fritz M
><nospam@masoner.net> wrote in message
>news:1116864688.929030.206850@g49g2000cwa.googleg roups.com...
>>
>> Justin Sane wrote:
>>
>>> What should we do with these lists of words? :|
>>
>> Even though they're now being indexed
>you probably don't want to
>> select something with 4 trillion hits as an important keyword for your
>> site :-)
>
>
>Google isn't using the words in search queries like "football and baseball".
>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...l+and+baseball .
>It states the *and* operator isn't necessary. Of course if you use just
>*and* it will list results.

Too bad. I would think that natural language searching would be pretty popular with the
"I barely know how to load a web page" crowd. and even with everybody else for casual
searches.


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