ive noticed that i can make more than one index. the one that the search seems to default to is 'full_index' can i make more than one index then just point my search at different index's? also i eliminated the text area and just left the title, abstract,... 4 fields in total... it officially doesnt work.. but there is no error here is the query: $sql = "SELECT research.researchID, research.name AS research, research.coresearch, research.affiliation, research.abstract, research.fulltext, date.name AS date, author.name AS author, MATCH(research.name, research.abstract, research.coresearch, research.affiliation) AGAINST ('$searchstring') AS score FROM research, date, author WHERE MATCH(research.name, research.abstract, research.coresearch, research.affiliation) AGAINST ('$searchstring') AND date.dateID = research.dateID AND author.authorID = research.authorID ORDER BY score DESC"; this is what its searching: research name: More crazy research abstract: The plague is bad co-researcher: botton affiliation: school it has 9 words to search and if i type in any of them it wont find the article.. are all the words occuring too often?