MySQL Fulltext Hidden Goodness
While searching around for some information about MySQL’s fulltext index, I found this very helpful document: The Full-Text Stuff That We Didn’t Put In The Manual. This handy little document contains additional information about the word-breaking algorithm, additional information on the operation of boolean search, a complete list of stopwords for English (stopwords are words that are so common that it would not be helpful to index them), and links to even more articles.
You’ve been blogging some real interesting stuff here, Jeff, keep up the good work!
Comment by TDavid — 2/13/2005 @ 5:01 pm
*New Syndic8 blogging energy from Jeff Barr Well, this blog may not be ”new” as far as the blogosphere goes, but in August 2004, Jeff Barr of Syndic8 fame (and also works on webservices for Amazon) started blogging with renewed energy after a server meltdown using Wordpress. His…
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