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Stop Words
Stopwords are ignored by the catalog
Stopwords are short frequently occurring words that slow the processing
of a search. To optimize search speed, most catalogs and databases have a list of stopwords that the
system ignores.
The following are examples of common stopwords:
| a | be | is | that | an | by | in | it | the |
| as | for | of | this | at | he | on | to | with |
To speed a search, leave stop words out
Title Search: THE FIRM could be entered as FIRM
Keyword Search: GILBERT AND SULLIVAN could be entered as GILBERT SULLIVAN
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