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		Does the MySQL Fulltext Index Scale? (epsilondelta.net)
		4 points by farmer on March 12, 2007 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

davidw on March 12, 2007 | [–]

We're looking at Solr where I'm working. It seems pretty nice as it gives you all the 'extras' to make Lucene that much more attractive.

staunch on March 12, 2007 | [–]

Craigslist uses MySQL FULLTEXT indexing, so it definitely "scales". For all my big-time searching needs I use Xapian.

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