Hello

Does anyone know where i can configure/modify the noise words (also known as stop words) in SharePoint 2013 Search?

Thank you!

I've done some looking, and from what I can tell there is no longer a noise words list used in the Search Crawl.  Everything gets crawled and Indexed. You can implement a custom WCF web service that would be used in Content Processing.  I think this is how you are expected to implement a custom noise w

Jep, while doing some Research, i found it: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607742.aspx

Anti-Phrasing and Offensive content filtering is out of order

Anti-Phrasing and Offensive content filtering were Fast Search functionality and aren't quite the same thing as noise words in regular SharePoint 2013 search.  But they have been removed just as noise words appear to have been.  Anti-Phrasing and Offensive content filtering in FAST removed things from a query result.  Noise words prevented content from being indexed to begin with.  But either way they all seem to be gone and replaced with different functionality.

I think you mean 'gone and replaced with NO functionality'.  Unbelievable.

• Edited by John07689 Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:16 PM

I think you mean 'gone and replaced with NO functionality'.  Unbelievable.

• Edited by John07689 Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:16 PM

I think you mean 'gone and replaced with NO functionality'.  Unbelievable.

• Edited by John07689 Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:16 PM

I think you mean 'gone and replaced with NO functionality'.  Unbelievable.

• Edited by John07689 Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:16 PM

Hi Paul,

Thanks for providing this information.  I spent a lot of time trying to find the noise file before I stumbled upon this article. I know this is a old post.

I still need to implement this for a client of mine. Basically they need a list of words to be excluded form search.

You have mentioned above that there is an option of implementing a custom WCF Web service and using it in content process.

Can you please shed some more light on how this custom web service must be created and configured? I am familiar with developing WCF web service.  I need information on how this web service has to communicate with SharePoint search.

Take a look at the following article:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdev/archive/2012/11/13/customize-the-sharepoint-2013-search-experience-with-a-content-enrichment-web-service.aspx

Thank you Paul. The link was very helpful.