Stopwords

Stop-words are non-information-bearing words such as "the," "and," "a," "is," and "on" that are excluded during indexing and searching processes. Each language has its own specific stop-word list. Search engines typically ignore these common words to:

• Conserve disk storage space
• Accelerate search performance
• Enhance search relevance

SearchBlox implements language-specific stop-words based on the language selected during collection creation. The stop-word definition files are stored at:

<SEARCHBLOX_INSTALLATION_PATH>\webapps\ROOT\stopwords

Customizing Stop-Words

• To modify the default stop-words for a language (using English as an example):
  Navigate to the appropriate language file:
  <SEARCHBLOX_INSTALLATION_PATH>\webapps\ROOT\stopwords\English_en.xml
• Edit the XML file to add or remove specific stop-words
• Restart SearchBlox
• Re-index the affected collection to apply changes

These modifications will alter how SearchBlox processes common words in your indexed content, potentially affecting search relevance and performance.

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Important Note:

Please note that the collection must be cleared and reindexed for the changes to take effect. When you modify the stopwords file for a specific language, the changes will not be reflected in the search results until the collection is cleared and reindexed.