Stopwords Tab

Site Search > Relevance > Basic Relevance > Stopwords Tab

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Stopwords are terms that degrade the keyword search, such as “and,” “the,” “of,” and so forth. There is no point in indexing them because they appear in every document. See Why Stopwords? for more perspective.

The Stopwords Tab of the SearchStax Site Search solution’s Basic Relevance screen lets you build a list one word at a time, or upload a list. Any word on the list will be automatically removed from subsequent queries.

Type a stopword into the Word field and click the (+) button. This adds the word to the list. 

You can highlight a word in the list and click the trash button to delete it. The Upload button lets you select a local file and upload it. When you upload a file, it appends words to the previous list. Duplicate entries are ignored.

• It accepts TXT files.
• A stopword file may be up to 10MB in size.
• The words should be delimited by newlines. 
• Site Search can accommodate up to 25000 stop words.

The cloud icon on the right is the Download List feature. It downloads a reloadable TXT file.

Note that there is a button at the bottom of the screen that lets you discard your changes and revert to the previously-saved list.