Vahan Yerkanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:

> I'm in process of writing a web page indexer, which retrieves
> pages from a preset URL list, strips them from HTML tags, and
> inserts the text into a database. Now what I'm puzzled with is
> the table structure which holds the text information. Setting
> TEXT/BLOB fields as an indexes wasn't supported before 3.23.33,
> and I'm greatly concerned about the performance, as the site
> itself gets around 300,000 hits daily. Anyone with previous
> experience in this field could shed some light on this?
> I should be able to find 'Hello World!' in the table row with
> any of those keywords 'ell', 'lo Wo', 'Hell ld!', 'Hello', 'World',etc.

Have you tried the full text search capabilities yet?  Might work in your case - docs 
at http://www.mysql.com/doc/M/y/MySQL_full-text_search.html
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