Stopwords

Certain words of little intrinsic meaning occur too frequently to be useful in searching text. Information systems call these "stopwords." You cannot search for the following words alone in the database, but they can be included within a phrase:

about

after

also

although

among

an

and

are

at

been

before

between

both

but

by

did

do

during

each

either

etc

for

found

from

further

had

has

have

however

in

into

is

its

many

more

not

obtained

of

on

only

other

respectively

same

several

showed

significantly

some

such

than

that

the

their

there

these

they

those

through

to

toward

upon

used

using

was

were

what

when

where

whether

which

while

with

within

would