limit stopwords

[helman]

hi,
the limitation on stopwords with 400 is too low.
Lists with german or english stopwords typically have about 1.000 entries or more.
What can i do to skip all the words i want to?

Manfred

[David]

What is the reason you are using these long list of stop words. Maybe there is an alternative method to achieve the same result.

We see a lot of people using the stop word list for the wrong reasons.

[helman]

i do not want that the stopwords appear in search results.

[David]

Using stopwords does not stop these words appearing in the results. If for example, the word in question appears in the page title, it will still be displayed regardless of if it is in the list or not.

[helman]

ok. but for which purpose use these stopwords?

[Ray]

Stopwords (aka skip words) are words which the Indexer will not store any index data for, and you will not be able to search for.

For example, a common word like "the" would appear so often, that this would swamp the index data. The larger the index data, the longer it takes to search (and the more resource intensive the procedure). It also means bigger files to upload to your server.

In addition, it would sway the results in an unhelpful manner: e.g. if you search for "the beatles" (without quotes), you don't want a page containing 100 instances of "the" (and maybe 5 instances of "beatles") to be considered more important than a page containing 10 instances of "beatles".

So that is why you would want to "skip" them or exclude them from the indexing.

However, you don't want these words to be suppressed from appearing in the search results, as most sentences would cease to make sense. Imagine a sentence with all the common words like "the", "and", "or" stripped out of it.

If you actually want to exclude an entire page because a particular word appears on it, take a look at the Content Filtering feature (chapter 2.2.12 in the Zoom Users Guide)