1 MySQL has fulltext index search ability for text field, but it is word
2 based index: it cannot be used for no word delimiter language like
3 Japanese or Chinese. It also can't search characters in the middle of
4 a word (e.g. searching 'in' will not match word 'ping').
6 Starting from MySQL 5.1, MySQL supports a plugin that allows to change
7 server components (fulltext search parser) without restarting and/or
8 recompiling the server.
10 This n-gram parser uses this plugin interface to implement a simple
11 n-gram (bi-gram) fulltext index parser which can be used for languages
12 without word delimiters.
14 WWW: http://mysqlbigram.googlepages.com/