Hi Victor, The fulltext index was created on 1 column only that is of type "text". The benchmarks I get are very inconsistant... SELECT product_id FROM product_fulltext WHERE MATCH ( search_text ) AGAINST ('China') >Query took 20.17 seconds
SELECT product_id FROM product_fulltext WHERE MATCH ( search_text ) AGAINST ('Mongolia') >Query took 0.43 seconds SELECT product_id FROM product_fulltext WHERE MATCH ( search_text ) AGAINST ('russia') >Query took 6.18 seconds SELECT product_id FROM product_fulltext WHERE MATCH ( search_text ) AGAINST ('United States') >Query took 35.57 seconds SELECT product_id FROM product_fulltext WHERE MATCH ( search_text ) AGAINST ('Chicago') >Query took 11.81 seconds SELECT product_id FROM product_fulltext WHERE MATCH ( search_text ) AGAINST ('New York') >Query took 43.14 seconds SELECT product_id FROM product_fulltext WHERE MATCH ( search_text ) AGAINST ('heserfretzel') >Query took 0.04 seconds The last word I made up. It seems to be directly proportional to the number of results it pulls up. :( - John -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]