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Keyword Stemming Question

Which SE's stem keywords?

         

CanadianChris

6:44 pm on Jan 20, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I'm 99% positive that Google stems keywords when doing searches, but I'm not sure about Yahoo or MSN, anybody know?

Ex: "widgets" returns results for "widget" as well as "widgets"

fischermx

6:27 am on Feb 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

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All big search engine does stemming while crawling.
Though not exactly while doing the search on the index.
I would guess they save both the stemmed and the original keyword in their index.

Take a look and ask why you get different results, for example, with and without the plural form of word.

At google :
Databases : 37,000,000
Database : 164,000,000