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Any reasons why can't I search words like "the", "a", etc?

These words (and a few more) have been filtered out because they are far too common in everyday English and statistically not [so] important. Had we left them in, they would probably outweigh the meaningful suggestions.

Pretty cool site.

You might want to look into TF-IDF (term frequency-inverse document frequency) weighting as an alternative to filtering for common English words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf

Thank you!

We are using both techniques (filtering + TF-IDF weighting), actually :)

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