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axel at uni-paderborn

Aug 16, 2002, 7:04 PM

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Re: Searching with common words

>Perhaps its time to think about rolling our own fulltext indexing
>mechanism?

Just the opposite! Let's just use mysql's fulltext search the way it
was intended. It is precisely designed for an application like ours,
and they say they optimized the parameters for large databases.
I'm sure we could not hack together anything comparable. (See also my
last post on wikipedia-l.)

Axel

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