Jennifer I suggest you check out MySQLs full text indexing capabilities. If you create a fulltext index on the text fields you want to search you can use the MATCH function. This will perform a fuzzy matching search that returns results in order of relevance. For details see http://www.mysql.com/doc/F/u/Fulltext_Search.html
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