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Stopwords

Stopwords are words which are so common in a database that they have little informational value. These stopwords will be ignored by FirstSearch when processing a keyword search request. However, you must include these words if they are part of an exact phrase that you are searching.

If you type only stopwords in your search, FirstSearch stops processing the search and displays the following message: Your search contained only stopwords. Please use more specific terms.

Stopwords
 
a  but  he  of  was 
an  by  in  on  which 
are  for  her  that  with 
as  from  his  the you 
at  had  is  this   
be  have  it  to   
 

 

 

 

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