j’s scratchpad

Thanks, J. Scott Johnson. A few days ago, I mentioned that I tried to find the list of Feedster’s stop terms. Scott put them online.

And, yes, I’ve read the list of numbers and words already. Why? Because I’m really weird. But I learned that Feedster doesn’t like searches on numbers, so searches on dates, like “April 17,” probably won’t return proper results. That’s good to know.

A stop word or term, by the way, is a word or character a search engine ignores. A popular Internet search engine tells users it’s going to ignore certain words in the search string because they’re really popular. Those ignored words are on a list of stop words somewhere.

Addendum 7/22: It seems I’m not the only one who wanted Feester’s list of stop words.

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