Thunderstone Search Appliance Manual

Keep Noise Words

Syntax: select Y or N button

Off (N) by default. This indicates whether to keep noise words ("the", "and", "who" etc.) in the query during query processing and search for them, or remove them from the query and ignore them. Searching for noise words can increase query time, as they occur frequently, and generally does not improve the results much due to their ubiquitous frequency; thus they are ignored by default.