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To: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
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Comments: In-reply-to Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:29:33 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> writes:
> Robert Bernier wrote:
>> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 13:33, Robert Treat wrote:
>>> ASPSeek can as well (they're called stopwords) but it won't help in this
>>> case because even if we don't ignore IN et al. it'll still match
>>> virtually every page.

> Could we not just score the index more highly than other pages?

I don't think people want to be presented links to indexes; the search
engine is supposed to keep them from having to use anything as low tech
as an index, no?

But what strikes me is the idea of teaching the search engine not to
ignore stopwords that are marked as <indexterm>'s ...

			regards, tom lane