Is there a list of the most common English words for indexing text to search?

Question

Is there a free list of the most common English words to remove from text to create a search index?

Answer 1

Wikipedia gives the 100 most common lemmas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English

This may be useful to start with; The article provides some useful links.

Answer 2

There are those (plus characters) that are used in the noiseword SQL Server 05 list, I assume that the boxes 08 are simulated.

And the MSDN on it here

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