Re: Re: New search related question

On 2/4/08, Shawn McKenzie <nospam@mckenzies.net> 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. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/