Thanks Philip, I spent some time looking for that list, but obviously 
didn't look hard enuf.

Ryan

> > 2) Why would these sample words have no match?
> > Cannot match against "when", "most", "like", "goes" Why are these
> > words not in the index? The file contains 1 million title records
> > and all of these words are in the file many times.
>
>Those words are considered 'stopwords'; because they are so common,
>MySQL doesn't index them since (1) they won't help much in
>distinguishing a search query, and (2) it saves a lot of space.
>
>You can make MySQL index these words if you recompile MySQL without a
>stopword list. To do that, see
>http://www.mysql.com/doc/F/u/Fulltext_Fine-tuning.html (search for the
>word "stopword" in that webpage).



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