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We used to do prefix and infix search, but the amount of value provided was not huge. It also really blows out your indexes / indexing time. I'd like to add this back at some point, but we're not there yet.

As for supporting equimatch using quotes -- its actually not too hard to do this. Just wanted to ship early and iterate rather than expend too much effort getting it perfect.

A plan violently executed today is always better than a perfect plan executed weeks in the future. But thanks for the feedback -- these are important search items that need to be addressed.



If I search for ‘iness’ and you return ‘Business’ I wonder what your index look like. If it is what I think, you are going the wrong way rantfoil. This will be very time consuming if you are doing it from scratch; it is worth looking at Sphinx as thorax suggested or any open source.


Oh, we do use Sphinx. It's excellent. It would be insane to write your own full text searching or rely on MySQL's built in indexing.




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