I'm very much interested in this question as well.

Someone told me that small words such as 'in' are stop words and as such ignored by Google and that [painters texas] would be the same as [painters in texas].

But in that case, why does Google's keyword tool give such different exact results for these 2 phrases?

Anyone else got any input on this?

Thanks

I'm very much interested in this question as well.

Someone told me that small words such as 'in' are stop words and as such ignored by Google and that [painters texas] would be the same as [painters in texas].

But in that case, why does Google's keyword tool give such different exact results for these 2 phrases?

Anyone else got any input on this?

Thanks