I suggest using Google and you won't have that problem. It ignores all of the common words such as you mention. There's been mention of other search engines with similar power, but I still think Google is the king of the pack. Try it out.

Update: Ok, I'm still not sure if this question is referring to the PerlMonks site or a real search engine. Based on the fact the PerlMonks doesn't have more than 100k nodes, he must be referring to a real search engine (12 million results). If by some chance the question is referring to PerlMonks, take mpolo's advice and user Super Search, or simply just leave common words such as "The", "a", "and", etc out of your search request.
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In reply to Re: Very Common Words in Searching by agent00013
in thread Very Common Words in Searching by mischief

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