# Limit search index by rdfs:label and exclude rdfs:comment

**URL:** <https://community.stardog.com/t/limit-search-index-by-rdfs-label-and-exclude-rdfs-comment/3760>\
**Category:** Stardog Explorer\
**Created:** [May 20, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/limit-search-index-by-rdfs-label-and-exclude-rdfs-comment/3760 "2022-05-20T15:11:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![R3000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/r3000/32/358_2.png) [@R3000](https://community.stardog.com/u/R3000)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/limit-search-index-by-rdfs-label-and-exclude-rdfs-comment/3760/1 "2022-05-20T15:11:02Z")

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Search in Explorer is nice and relatively fast for small and medium amount of data. However when concepts have large amount of free text in rdfs:comment - it takes more than 20 seconds to see the result.

- Is that possible via configuration? Ideally inside Explorer ...

Also it would be nice Explorer to provide search as you type experience.

Regards,  
Radu

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**Author:** ![Laura\_Firey](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.stardog.com/laura_firey/32/635_2.png) [@Laura\_Firey](https://community.stardog.com/u/Laura_Firey)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.stardog.com/t/limit-search-index-by-rdfs-label-and-exclude-rdfs-comment/3760/2 "2022-05-20T15:44:43Z")

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Hi Radu,

If you are using Full Text Search, you can choose to exclude certain properties from the index. This will decrease the full index size and lead to faster text based results, [documentation link](https://docs.stardog.com/query-stardog/full-text-search#exclusion-list-of-properties). For instance, if text searches across `rdfs:comment` are not typically useful for your use case this might be an option for improved performance. Understood you might want comments included in the index.

I have shared the feature request to be able to customize properties Explorer searches against internally.

Thanks,  
Laura
