Brett_Tabke - 12:26 am on Jul 19, 2000 (gmt 0)

Hi Gyslaine, welcome to the board. Sorry for the belated reply - Seth Mo is on vacation this week.

Yes, Alta does use stop words. The easiest way to figure out if a stop word is being used is to try to search for the word itself on Alta. Often, you'll get zero results for stop words.

Stop words are as big a deal as they used to be because search engines have returned to indexing and keeping entire pages of text around in the database. It used to be, they would pull out the stop words before storing on disk, just to save space.