Comments on: Stop Words Are Dead! Did I Miss Another Memo?

By: Marketing Words Copywriting Blog :: Entries :: Stop Words Are Ignored by Search Engines. Not!

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:34:17 +0000

[...] reported in detail by Dan Thies and Bill Slawski, formerly labeled stop words aren't causing enormous stirs in the SEO [...]

By: Production Music

Production Music — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:11:52 +0000

I also see this in url's with words like Royalty Free Music. How can this be seen as one word? Also, it seems Google would be able to tell the difference between "Does Not" and "Doe Snot" in a url based on other words in a search query. Their algorithm must at least be that advanced?

By: Las Vegas Weddings

Las Vegas Weddings — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:31:00 +0000

I see the example above. So, if all the words in a url are together with no hyphen, then google sees them as one word? If so, why do I constantly see long key phrases like lasvegasweddings (Las Vegas Weddings) in top positioned url's?

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:13:10 +0000

HowToSellSongs is not 4 words, it's one word.

By: Production Music Library

Production Music Library — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:05:21 +0000

Does this include STOP words found in url's?

For example: HowToSellSongs.com

How does Google deal with STOP words in this case?

Thanks!

By: How Search Really Works: "The" Index (2)

How Search Really Works: "The" Index (2) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:19:48 +0000

[...] For example, knowing that in order for a positional inverted index to really work all words, including so-called "stop words", need to be indexed makes it less surprising that stop words are dead. [...]

By: Dude, I'm Phaaaaaat!

Dude, I'm Phaaaaaat! — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:28:38 +0000

[...] In fact, the latest advancement of search has Google recently putting stop words (I, and, in, the, etc) back into Search. Barry discusses it here with links to Bill and Dan. [...]

By: Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing

Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:48:26 +0000

Google No Longer Displays Stop Words Warning…

In the past, a search on google stop words in search would return a warning that read, ""in" is a very common word and was not included in your search." But if you do that search today, no such message is displayed. Here is a before an after pictur…

By: Dan Thies

Dan Thies — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:17:10 +0000

Anyone interested in search technology and "how things work" should follow the trackback above and read Bill Slawski's post.

These words aren't exactly news to those who follow the technology, but it's very helpful, when trying to figure out what search engines are and aren't doing, to keep performance in mind:

Typically, given a query, the performance bottleneck is the time it takes to decode the occurrences (which are typically delta encoded to save space, and thus have to be followed from the beginning) of the most frequently occurring term, especially if this term is a so-called stop-word such as “the”.

By: New Google Approach to Indexing and Stopwords -SEO by the SEA

New Google Approach to Indexing and Stopwords -SEO by the SEA — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:58:13 +0000

[...] I'm not seeing Google ignoring stop words any more. Last week, Dan Thies asked Stop Words Are Dead! Did I Miss Another Memo? [...]