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[Philip S Tellis <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 3 May 2001, DEVOS BASTIEN wrote:

> what's do you mean by stop-list ? 

When one enters a query in a search engine, there are several words that
are irrelevant to the query eg: a, an, I, the.  These words are very
common, and occur in almost all pages that have been indexed.  This is
called a stop list, and any word in the query that exists in the stop
list is removed before doing the search.

Philip