Very nice...

I hope you can keep this running, it'll be very useful.

How bad is the load from this? I noticed it works for 3 letter words (my test was "map"), unlike Super Search.

It would also work for 2 letter words, according to the instructions. But are there any "significant" 2 letter words that someone might want to search for? You can probably lighten your database if you exclude fluff like "to", "as", "do", "in", and "it", for instance...

Please note in the instructions that this is a "word search"; "grep match" doesn't find Strange grep and matching behaviour....

The "Terms are split on spaces after non-word chars are stripped" comment probably means that, but it's not completely clear.
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Mike

In reply to Re: Offsite Perlmonks Search Engine by RMGir
in thread Offsite Perlmonks Search Engine by blakem

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