Stop Me If You've Seen This Word Before
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Stop Me If You've Seen This Word Before
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#2http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22the...
as soon as the article asserted this wouldn't work, i tried googling, and it worked fine. i stopped reading after that.
edit: for whatever reason, if you follow the link directly, the search results are wrong. you might have to submit the query again after the page loads to get the right results. weird! maybe he was onto something (nope)
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#3POPFile has stopwords because people in the community insisted on it. My commercial email filtering software does not because it turned out that in my tests that the accuracy difference they made was so small as to be in the noise. And they were costly in terms of time to check, and to maintain across different languages.
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#4http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22the... as soon as the article asserted this wouldn't work, i tried googling, and it worked fine. i stopped reading after that. edit: for whatever reason, if you follow the link directly, the search results are wrong. you might have to submit the query again after the page loads to get the right results. weird! maybe he was onto something (nope)
He says in the article: Google doesn't seem to use stop words any more. (in fact he makes a point of that fact).
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#5http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22the... as soon as the article asserted this wouldn't work, i tried googling, and it worked fine. i stopped reading after that. edit: for whatever reason, if you follow the link directly, the search results are wrong. you might have to submit the query again after the page loads to get the right results. weird! maybe he was onto something (nope)
Maybe you should have read all the way through.
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#6http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22the... as soon as the article asserted this wouldn't work, i tried googling, and it worked fine. i stopped reading after that. edit: for whatever reason, if you follow the link directly, the search results are wrong. you might have to submit the query again after the page loads to get the right results. weird! maybe he was onto something (nope)
He says in the article: Google doesn't seem to use stop words any more . (in fact he makes a point of that fact).
then why did he start the article with it? :(
i guess i should have read it more then
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#7http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22the... as soon as the article asserted this wouldn't work, i tried googling, and it worked fine. i stopped reading after that. edit: for whatever reason, if you follow the link directly, the search results are wrong. you might have to submit the query again after the page loads to get the right results. weird! maybe he was onto something (nope)
He says in the article: Google doesn't seem to use stop words any more . (in fact he makes a point of that fact).
And in this case, yahoo seems to be better than google:
http://twingine.no/search.php?q=the+the
Now all we need is a MySQL stopword story contest...
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#8I ran into a similar problem teaching myself perl a couple years ago by doing a short tutorial then foolishly jumping into a co-worker's code. "What the hell is '$.'? Hmm, well I'm sure Google can help me. What? No matching documents?!? What is this crazy s.o.b. doing here??"
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#9> "The" is one of the most common words in the English language
"the" is THE most common word in English.
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#10I ran into a similar problem teaching myself perl a couple years ago by doing a short tutorial then foolishly jumping into a co-worker's code. "What the hell is '$.'? Hmm, well I'm sure Google can help me. What? No matching documents?!? What is this crazy s.o.b. doing here??"
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's had trouble with this. I remember reading some C code once and I saw some strange operators I had never seen before... ?, if I remember correctly.
I eventually figured out they were GCC extensions for "min" and "max", but only after a painful experience trying to get more info out of Google than "here's how you do addition and multiplication in C!"