Searching algorithms in WebHelp

[ann.jensen]

Hello,
I am trying to get a better understanding of how to use the Search in Oxygen WebHelp and what kind of results I can expect to get.
If I type in the following words " This task was prevented from being added" (without quotes obviously) I see groupings of results where the first grouping is titled
Results for: from, prevented, task

Does the algorithm remove the words 'this', 'was', 'being' and 'added' and if so what is the logic for doing this?
Any advice appreciated,
Regards,
Ann

[bogdan_cercelaru]

Hello,

First of all, the WebHelp search does not support exact match searching.
Secondly, results depends on the content being searched. The words listed after the "Results for:" label are the words that have been found in the index of the content, not the words searched for.
However, there is a set of words, named "stop words" that are filtered by the content indexer. You can find the list in the OUTPUT/oxygen-webhelp/search/index-1.js file.

Regards,
Bogdan