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Re:Making the Internet Archive’s full text search faster by gioark on Saturday June 10, 2017 @11:25AM (#14527668)
We don't use stopwords because we want to find all the best and complete matches. We don't want to ignore any of the words part of the search query.
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Re:Making the Internet Archive’s full text search faster by aisofteng on Saturday June 10, 2017 @12:05PM (#14527816)
You do use stopwords. Your most common unigrams are not in the index, by design. You just use your own stopwords.
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