So, I asked my server company to change the minimum character length for FULLTEXT indexing to 3, they did it, restarted MySQL service and I rebuilt the index according to the MySQL Documentation which said to do a repair on the table like so: REPAIR TABLE `advertisements` QUICK ; The Table repair goes fine, but im still not seeing the benefit of of my 3 letter words and tags when I do a FULLTEXT search. Not sure if it matters, but im using Boolean mode... Anyone have any tips for making it work?