Does Google not count certain words in search queries? If so which words?I remember hearing somewhere that woulds such as how to and in get discounted so if you searched for a painter in new york Google would query their index with painter new york.Is this correct?
Does Google not count certain words in search queries
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Yes, this is correct. Google does not use all the words in your query to display search results - at least not all the time. There does not seem to be a list for all the words that are in a query but which Google might not consider when displaying search results; likely they are articles (a, an, the), prepositions (of, on, in) and - possibly, and depending on the context - frequent verbs like be, is, are, go, was, went.Google lists its policy on this site under Exceptions, though: