[Wikipedia-l] Re: Searching with common words

[Axel Boldt]

Andre writes:

>Could the search feature be changed such that common words, rather
>than blocking the whole search, are removed from it

I would like that very much. I just searched for "leap second" and
found nothing, because "second" is a stop word...

The internal mysql search engine already does the right thing and
omits stop words silently, but we are using it separately for every
word, which causes the problem.

Axel