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New Google Approach to Indexing and Stopwords

Went Hot: January 17, 2008 - 1:59 pm
Posted By: billslawski 535 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.seobythesea.com)
Category: Google Searching

Frequently used words, or stop words, were often ignored in search engine indexing, but sometimes they can be significant to a search, like one for the opening line of a Shakespearean soliloquy, "To be, or not to be?"

If using compression intelligently in an index can mean more precision in results, and make phrase searching better, without sacrificing speed or disk space used (and perhaps even reducing the use of disk space), that can have some interesting implications.