Stop words

A stop word is a word or phrase that an IBM® Content Search Services search server ignores in a full-text search expression. Typically, to avoid many irrelevant search results, the stop words that you define are the words that occur frequently in the text language. You might also want product names or any other phrases that occur frequently in your object text to be stop words.

For example, if the is a stop word, the following search expressions are equivalent:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
quick brown fox jumps over lazy dog

Stop words do not apply to search expressions that have Boolean operators such as AND, OR, or NOT. Also, stop words do not apply to the following types of search terms: