Manage Stopwords - Advanced Sphinx Search Pro

Stopwords are words which have little lexical meaning or ambiguous meaning and are not useful for search (ex. and, or, the, a, with, etc). These words will be removed from search phrase.

To manage stopwords go to Search > Dictionary of Stopwords. You can add new stopwords manually or can import them from CSV file.

To import stopwords press button Import Dictionary. You'll see a dropdown list with avaliable dictionaries. Select dictionary, store view and press button Import Dictionary.

All dictionaries are located in the folder [magento_root]/var/sphinx/stopwords/. By default extension has dictionary of English stopwords (665 items). You can create a custom dictionary for your own language using the same file format. Also stopwords dictionaries for different languages can be found in web.

Dictionaries

• English
• French
• Dutch
• German
• Polish

Useful links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopword