Full text noise word woes and angst

• Jonathan Tomkins

  Ten Centuries

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  October 1, 2003 at 7:58 am

  #358361

  I hope someone can clarify this for me -

  I'm getting confused by noise words in a full-text search criteria - I wouldn't

  expect (a bad word to use around a computer I know) noise words to be stripped

  from a phrase, but writing:

  CONTAINS(title,' "about company" ')

  seems to bring back the same results as

  CONTAINS(title,' "company" ')

  and a phrase with just noise words in it returns the "your search words were too common"

  

  Am I going to have to remove "about" from the noise words list to solve this?

  Many thanks

  Jon

• mccork

  SSC-Insane

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  October 2, 2003 at 2:29 am

  #476699

  As well as removing "about" from the noise words list, I think you'll have to rebuild the FT catalogs.

  While it's been in the noise words list, "about" has not been stored in the catalog, so a rebuild is necessary in order to populate it.

  Cheers,

  - Mark

  
  Cheers,
  - Mark