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Originally Posted by katie hunter

On the other hands, XF is selling a product with a weak search built into its core and if you want the product to perform better, you have to buy a search addon that should have been part of the core function of XF not a plugin in the first place. That tells you a lot actually, that the XF developers think that by spending an x amount of time developing a proper function, they had the right to separate it from the main software and sell it as a plugin. I would never encourage this scheme.

The de-facto Mysql search is the standard search used in thousands of php applications worldwide. To say its weak is like going into a store and buying a new pet dog, then complaning when they want to sell you a brush to groom the dog because you think the brush should have come with the dog.