Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #7394, comment 61
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Ticket #7394, comment 61
initial v1 9 9 Stopwords are an integral part of all searching. Using them not only produces better results, it also improves performance, quite a bit in some cases. There's no point in using search terms that will match all table rows, and using them several times makes it slower. 10 10 11 For example, currently searching for "about the about" will select all table rows threetimes and make the results irrelevant. With stopwords it will only search for the whole string making it (much) faster and relevant.11 For example, currently searching for "about the about" will select all table rows several times and make the results irrelevant. With stopwords it will only search for the whole string making it (much) faster and relevant. 12 12 13 13 It's a good point that adding stopwords may not be that easy for translators. However doing a simple web search for "stopwords" brings lots of examples for all languages, so thinking they will be able to do it. Of course we can add better explanation, both in a comment in that function and on http://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/.