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Search Engine Optimization And Stop Words - What are They, A List


 


 


Most Search Engines scan and index all of the text in a web page. However, some Search Engines ignore certain text known as Stop Words, which is explained below. Apart from this, almost all Search Engines ignore spam.
Stop words are common words that are ignored by search engines at the time of searching a key phrase. This is done in order to save space on their server, and also to accelerate the search process.

 

When a search is conducted in a search engine, it will exclude the stop words from the search query, and will use the query by replacing all the stop words with a marker. A marker is a symbol that is substituted with the stop words. The intention is to save space. This way, the search engines are able to save more web pages in that extra space, as well as retain the relevancy of the search query.
Besides, omitting a few words also speeds up the search process. For instance, if a query consists of three words; The Search Engine would generally make three runs for each of the words and display the listings. However, if one of the words is such that omitting it does not make a difference to search results, it can be excluded from the query and consequently the search process becomes faster.

 

Commonly Used “Stop Words” 

Commonly Used “Stop Words”

 

Some commonly excluded "stop words" are:
after                
also  
an                            
and
as                            
at    
be                            
because
before                      
between    
but                   
before
for                           
however   
from                 
if
in                             
into  
of                            
or
other                        
out   
since                
such
than                 
that  
the                           
these
there                
this  
those                
to
under                       
upon
when                
where
whether                    
which
with                  
within
without                     

 

 

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