The Ignore List provides you with a method of fine-tuning what will be included in search results.

Ignoring commonly searched for terms improves the performance of the program. For example, the word "the" will not yield any relevant results, so ignoring it simply means that the program will be able to function faster.

Setting name prefixes and file paths to ignore allows you to specify files (or entire directories) which shouldn't be searched by any of the categories. For example, you may not want Search Engine to search a private directory. Specifying a file path of "/usr/john/htdocs/private" will prevent the program from ever searching any files in that directory.