I loaded up the FastSearch plug-in for MT on Friday for my WIST blog, and today expanded it over to this blog.  If you look in the sidebar, you’ll see two search fields – “Search me, baby!” (which uses the out-of-the-box MT search functionality) and “FastSearch me, baby!” (which uses FastSearch).

FastSearch builds a full-text index of the blog entry body and titles, which makes for a much faster search than doing a raw-power search through the entry text.  I mean, hugely faster.

The only drawback to FastSearch is that it does not, as yet, support search of comment text.  Since folks here do so much in the comments, it’s still not an idea setup, hence my retaining the normal search facility.

Have fun!