anneliBlinaig
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Google claims that certain words ("the" "what", etc) will be ignored when you search on their site. However, this is not so, and I am confused.If you don't believe me, then try it. Search for "the cryptography forum" (no quotes) and it'll tell you that it ignored the word "the". so search for "cryptography forum" (no quotes) and you'll notice that your results are (slightly) different!!!!How?! I don't understand. Why are they doing this? Obviously the word "the" has an impact in the search; when it's included, my site comes out on top. When you do not include the word "the" my site comes out third or something.So what's going on? Since the word is not being ignored, why are we being led to believe that it is? Thanks...CryptozI am not seeing the difference on my search but the answer may lie in how the query is constructed by GoogleLook at the address for the search results, in particular the 'q' parameter...Quote:Good find rtchar !Did you catch any of the articles on LSI and LSA.. latent semantic indexing...they mention that you coulds use the tilde in front of you search terms and show the effects of the LSA/LSI on the results set. I didn't catch it on the first read but I was re-reading the article and it jumped right off the page. They used an example of a search for "phone" and "~phone". With the search for phone you get back phone directories and phone number lookup tools. When you add the tilde you get phone manufacturers in the top of the results. I got blessed with a top spot for Ski Real Estate...due to the fact that I live in a ski town and it's associted with the sport and I'm associted with it...or something like that....anyone else see this type of effect? Same thing for resort real estate