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I'm building somewhat of a search engine and have been trying to find a
list of blacklisted search terms. Words that I can exclude from the
search, such as "and", "the", "a", etc. I've been looking forever and
can't find anything, any idea where I can find something useful for
this?

Thanks for your help!
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Ben Johnson wrote:
> I'm building somewhat of a search engine and have been trying to find a
> list of blacklisted search terms. Words that I can exclude from the
> search, such as "and", "the", "a", etc. I've been looking forever and
> can't find anything, any idea where I can find something useful for
> this?
>
> Thanks for your help!

Hi Ben,

Try : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words - there's a link at the
bottom for some other sites that purport to provide 'stop-words' in
various languages...

Cheers !

John
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Try googling for "stopwords", that's what they're called.

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Ben Johnson <>wrote:

> I'm building somewhat of a search engine and have been trying to find a
> list of blacklisted search terms. Words that I can exclude from the
> search, such as "and", "the", "a", etc. I've been looking forever and
> can't find anything, any idea where I can find something useful for
> this?
>
> Thanks for your help!
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> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>

Emmanuel Surleau wrote:
> Try googling for "stopwords", that's what they're called.

Awesome, thanks for your help
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