Certain special characters such as [ and ] need to be considered word boundaries to avoid awkward situations like [[apple being entered into the search index. This also bloats the size of the search index, causing everything to slow down (which is exactly what we are trying to avoid - hence stop words).
It can also cause confusion since important words are often internal links on wikis, and not having them show up in search results could be rather annoying.
Certain special characters such as
[and]need to be considered word boundaries to avoid awkward situations like[[applebeing entered into the search index. This also bloats the size of the search index, causing everything to slow down (which is exactly what we are trying to avoid - hence stop words).It can also cause confusion since important words are often internal links on wikis, and not having them show up in search results could be rather annoying.