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- Counting: same word - different number of hits (all of the words, any of the words, exact phrase, Boolean phrase)
- Stop Words: HotBot and the other Inktomi databases have an extensive, dynamic stop word list. Many common words and numbers will not be searched. The list changes as the frequency of terms in the database change. When a stop word is in a phrase, it may not be obvious that the whole phrase is not being searched. Example : “online review” However, online was a stop word that day, so the search was actually equivalent to the single word search of review