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Black_Knight - 12:03 pm on Nov 6, 2002 (gmt 0)


thejenn > If you type any stop word, just the stop word (is, an, and, the) you will get results.

There's been a change however. It used to be that you got the exact same search results, no matter which stopword you used - it was like a search with no filter/term. Now however, a single word stop word is searched for, so that searching for "the" is different to searching for "and". (of course, I didn't use quotes in the search, but the results are similar to using quotes on stop-words to get them included.


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