Stop Words

by Charles Miller on December 22, 2003

The iTunes music store, like most search engines, ignores certain stop words -- words that are so common that they'll rarely be useful in a search. Now: how do you search for seminal 80's band The The?

(The answer, of course, is to search by song and then backtrack. But it's an interesting side-effect of what is otherwise a pretty sensible idea.)

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