A Practical Application of Feedster’s Stop Terms
This post is for the people who puzzle over why a few of us wanted to see Feedster’s list of stop terms.
I tried doing something many of us do, but won’t admit: I went to Feedster to search for “j Baumgart.” (It’s okay to admit you search for my name in Feedster. Really, it is.) At first, a lot of the hits seemed relevant, but as I went along, I noticed items containing only Baumgart or combined with different first names and no js. Then I remembered from reading the list that j is one of Feedster’s stop terms, which means it doesn’t use it in a search. A search on Baumgart retrieves the same results.
