Hi David,
You may want to try the "IN BOOLEAN MODE" modifier. If you prepend the  
short words and/or stopwords with a + mysql will still search for  
them. It works differently than the regular fulltext search, so you'll  
have to play with it to make sure the results are still relevant.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/fulltext-boolean.html

Matias Gertel
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On 26/06/2009, at 7:30 AM, Berend de Boer wrote:


>>>>> "David" == David  <[email protected]> writes:

    David> Perhaps I should allow 2-3 character terms and just parse
    David> out stop words, but this may be an overly complex solution
    David> to a simple problem.

MySQL has a list of stop words I believe. I remember vaguely it is
hard to change, but I'm always on 3 character words, and this doesn't
appear to be a problem.

-- 
Cheers,

Berend de Boer




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