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i've playing around with mysql's full text search and I'm not sure if it is the best.

let's say I search for "how do I book an appointment?" it will give me the correct results from the database, so "how can I book appointments?" I think it is because "book" is an uncommon word.

What if the user searches "how can I schedule an appointment?" I find it will not retrieve any records. I think it is because there are so many records with appointment in it.

So am I to understand a user can only get information on how to book an appointment if they use "book" in their question?

Lastly, should I be cleaning out words like "how","I" etc... in a mysql full text search? Should I be Stemming words as well?

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give a look also to SOLR

Giovanni Di Milia