# Blacklisted search terms

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blacklisted-search-terms/147161>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 28, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blacklisted-search-terms/147161 "2008-08-28T22:46:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blacklisted-search-terms/147161/1 "2008-08-28T22:46:20Z")

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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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**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blacklisted-search-terms/147161/2 "2008-08-28T22:52:58Z")

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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](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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**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blacklisted-search-terms/147161/3 "2008-08-28T22:56:31Z")

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

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**Author:** ![benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@benjohnson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/benjohnson)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2008, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/blacklisted-search-terms/147161/4 "2008-08-28T23:03:27Z")

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Emmanuel Surleau wrote:

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

Awesome, thanks for your help