Quote Originally Posted by Endless
The idea behing the built-in text index is that it allows natural search, i.e., if I searched for "caike", it would also return posts containing "cake". Besides, I wouldn't be surprised if the built-in full index took less space than vB's search index.
Ah, so fulltext does use relevancy matching...that almost negates the need for metaphone keys. Very cool, thanks for checking that out Endless.