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Old 04-18-2008, 04:45 AM
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Default Re: Keyword Search Issue in MySQL

Stemming does not help with the selection of "Iron Pigs" or "IronPigs" as that is 2 words or 1 word respectively.

Stemming would convert the words directory and directories to directori (may not be the correct stem but illustrates the point).

One option you have is to build a list of common miss spellings then when you get zero results compare the query term against the list and put up a message did you mean ....

Another option is to run the like query if the full text match fails, but then you still have no rank.
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