Google & Stop Words
Google changed how they handle some stop words. In the past they were treated as spacers in a search, but now many stop words are influencing the search results.
In the past a search for each of the following:
- loan from a bank
- loans from the bank
were processed like
- loan from * bank
but in some cases those small changes in stopwords can make a big difference in the search results. Bill Slawski covered recent Google research on stopwords here.
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