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    <p>OK I have a mySQL Database that looks something like this</p> <p><strong>ID - an int and the unique ID of the recorded</strong></p> <p><strong>Title - The name of the item</strong></p> <p><strong>Description - The items description</strong></p> <p>I want to search both title and description of key words, currently I'm using.</p> <p><strong>SELECT * From ‘item’ where title LIKE %key%</strong></p> <p>And this works and as there’s not much in the database, as however searching for “this key” doesn’t find “this that key” I want to improve the search engine of the site, and may be even add some kind of ranking system to it (but that’s a long time away).</p> <p>So to the question, I’ve heard about something called “Full text search” it is (as far as I can tell) a staple of database design, but being a Newby to this subject I know nothing about it so…</p> <p>1) Do you think it would be useful?</p> <p>And an additional questron…</p> <p>2) What can I read about database design / search engine design that will point me in the right direction.</p> <p>If it’s of relevance the site is currently written in stright PHP (I.E. without a framework) (thro the thought of converting it to Ruby on Rails has crossed my mind)</p> <p><strong>update</strong></p> <p>Thanks all, I'll go for Fulltext search. And for any one finding this later, I found a good <a href="http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/MySQL/Getting-Started-With-MySQLs-Full-Text-Search-Capabilities/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">tutorial</a> on fulltext search as well.</p>
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