Are specific terms ignored from searches?

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

Yes, I believe these are “stop” words — see:

No search results are shown for stopwords

Those are “stop” words Stop words are words that are very common, appear in almost every document, and have no discrimination value. Therefore, they can be ignored in the context of full text searching. For example, every English text contains words like a and the, so it is useless to store them in an index. However, stop words do affect the positions in tsvector, which in turn affect ranking:

I’m not sure if things have changed much since two years ago, but there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to change those.