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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by seldo on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:37PM (#1721328)
More likely that terms that are continuously mentioned in huge numbers (and therefore don't count as "trending") are omitted.
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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by _delirium on Thursday September 23, 2010 @04:58PM (#1721423)
There are more principled ways to do that than a blacklist, though, like looking at current frequency compared to typical frequency. That way even something commonly mentioned could still genuinely be trending if it gets mentioned much more than usual on a particular day.

(It's possible there are scale-related reasons that make this infeasible, though.)

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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by smackfu on Thursday September 23, 2010 @05:19PM (#1721508)
Just not tracking the frequency of the most common words that will never be in the trending topics is probably a big performance win. I'm sure there is an additional blacklist that includes stuff like "and" and "the".
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Re:Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes by bruceboughton on Thursday September 23, 2010 @08:24PM (#1722114)
You know you've made it when your brand name is a stopword.
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