I’m going out on a limb to say MySQL’s full-text indexing and searching features are underused. They appeared in MySQL 3.23.23 (most people are using 4.x, and 5 is in development), but it’s been news to most of the people I know.
Here’s the deal, the MATCH() function can search a full-text index for a string [...]
Posted September 6, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: boolean search, boolean searches, boolean searching, database, db, docs, documentation, full text, full text index, full text search, full text searching, fulltext, fulltext search, keywords, match(), mysql, rank, relevance, relevance rank, relevance ranked, relevance ranking, search, search full text. 8 Comments.
Search Engine Watch did a story about how to use Google and Amazon’s tools to search full-text content inside books.
The gist? when you can get to the tools and where they’ve got content, it does a lot to make books as accessible and open as electronic content.
Sort of related: I’ve spoken of Google Print before [...]
Posted July 17, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: amazon, book search, electronic content, full text content, google, google print, inside books, search engine, search engine watch, search full text, search inside the book. Be the first one.
