Blacklisted search terms

Ruby
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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 J. 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 : Stop word - Wikipedia - 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.

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Emmanuel Surleau wrote:

Try googling for “stopwords”, that’s what they’re called.

Awesome, thanks for your help