Updated the way vBulletin does its searching to use MYSQL based FULLTEXT indexes instead of the ancient Word table method it used before.
Some of the advantages include:
Of special interest should be the natural language searching which should allow you to now find things much easier
Some of the advantages include:
- Less PHP resources used because the indexing takes place in MySQL.
- No need to maintain the postindex and word tables which can take up a lot of space.
- Natural Language and Phrase searching is available.
- Can Sort by relevancy for better results
- Default search in vBulletin's latest versions.
- Can support more searches per minute.
- Searches can take better advantage of MySQL's query caching.
Of special interest should be the natural language searching which should allow you to now find things much easier