Re: Re: New search related question

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On 2/4/08, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree that htdig may be a better solution, however his current
> solution requires upkeep if the static HTML is changed and requires that
> the person populating the database pick all relevant words from the page
> and if new ones are added to update the db.

Oh the horror of setting up cron jobs and stopwords.

> Unless, by FULLTEXT, you're implying that the full text of each page
> should be in the db, then I would argue that there is negligible diff
> between that and the grep.

Here, let me connect the logic for you.

Q. If grep was the best search tool then why did slocate get invented?
A.  Indexes.

A MySQL index doesn't go away in between requests.


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