[Wikipedia-l] Searching with common words

[Ray Saintonge]

Andre Engels wrote:

>Could the search feature be changed such that common words, rather than
>blocking the whole search, are removed from it (provided that there are
>also non-common words in the search)? What I mean is having the search
>"kermit the frog" get out the same effect as "kermit frog" rather than
>none at all.
>
Don't you need to make a distinction here to allow for exact searches. 
 In many engines "kermit the frog" with quotation marks would get you 
exactly that phrase.  Without quotation marks it would behave as you 
suggest.

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