Google's Unconquerable Stopword

Reader JH wrote in with a story about using the + sign to force Google ( http://www.google.com ) to search for stopwords. She noted that a couple of attempts to force Google to search for the word "the" in a phrase didn't work. She wrote to Google support and they wrote back to confirm that yes, the is a stopword that cannot be forced using +. So keep on using + to force Google to search for stopwords, but realize that using + won't work on the word "the." Thanks JH!

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