When you query for something in Google, there are some words that you might use which are frequently appearing in a number of irrelevant search results. When you check for the results, you find that Google have avoided showing you such irrelevant results. For example when you look for “a London hotel”, “a” will be appearing in a lot of results, but Google is not taking those results into consideration. The result is that you will get the most required results for “London hotels”.
In the above example, the word “a” is considered to be a stop word by Google which is supposed to be ignored while performing queries. There are various other stop words like is, the etc. which need not be considered unless required as in special cases for querying for movies “The Matrix”.
The search engine maintains a list of such stop words and will be looking for the presence of such words in your query. Based on this, they will determine the relevance of whether to use or avoid the stop words while querying for relevant results. The end result is that, you will get the most appropriate result using the search engine with proper care given for stop words.
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