Posted by peter |

Preparing to move I’m selling stuff on GumTree which is UK based clone of Craigslist offering similar functionality but with Ads :)

Similarly to Craigslist GumTree is powered by MySQL but unlike craigslist it looks like they are shy in tuning their MySQL Full Text Search index configuration and setting proper ft_min_word_len value. Searching for Audi A6 will give you a lot of Audi with different model numbers. Searching just for A6 gives no results at all. At the same time we can find V40 which means ft_min_word_len was adjusted from default value of 4 which probably had even worse search quality to value 3.
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