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I think you mean "15% seems too high". Any easy way to think about this is the following: even if search the entire internet you will almost never see the same sentence twice, assuming it's has a certain number of words. There is a combinatorial explosion in possible sentences to write. Search queries are essentially just sentences without stopwords.



Removing stop words is what old school users of IT systems do, because that's what we learned worked best at the time.

Internet users who came online later, from GenZ to many boomers, will often just write conversational sentences and questions.




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