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What are “stopwords”?

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What are “stopwords”?

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Stopwords are words that are too common. If you search for a common word, like “help,” the system has to retrieve possibly 200,000 posts containing “help,” and the page would probably time out, or the server would bog down. If you see “(stopword)” in the results, you’ll know that you used a word or character that was ignored by the search engine.

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Stopwords are terms that appear so frequently in patent text that they lose their usefulness as search terms. Examples are “and”, “or”, and “the”. Although they are not indexed as search terms, they will be displayed in your search results.

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