"For your information: about an hour ago psoTFX added full text search function to phpBB 2.2, so if you are using new mySQL versions then you can use fulltext search that should work very fast."
"phpBB 2 uses a Fulltext search system, this has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that on large or busy forums it has far less impact on server load than standard search methods as used by many alternative forums"
I have benchmarked fulltext searching and it is notably slower then the current searching mechanism used by FUDforum. This mechanism is also MySQL specific and not available in the other 2 database systems FUDforum supports.]]>Ilia2005-10-07T19:00:41-00:00Re: Boolean Full-Text Searches
http://fudforum.org/forum/index.phpindex.php?t=rview&goto=28342&th=5688#msg_28342
Is there nothing that can be done to improve the built-in search (speed and functionality)?