Wisdom

Better search usually means a bigger stop-word list

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The better the better. The search, usually, the bigger their stop word list is.

Episode 3: Episode 3 00:42:17 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

Voice-matched

Summary

Indexing whole description fields polluted the Index's search. Dave's plan: a very large stop-word list, possibly 100,000 words or more, robust enough to cut the noise so descriptions can be indexed. That brings in useful things like unique guest names.