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ActiveFAQ's search functionality can help identify FAQs that are likely to contain the information included in the user's search term or phrase, thereby dramatically decreasing the time it takes a user to locate what they're looking for.  The topic locator serach interface is essentially a search engine that finds relevant entries containing the user's search expression.  A search expression can be a keyword, a key search phrase and may include a filter of category.  For example, enter the phrase "sales tax" into the search engine page and then click the 'Search' button to retrieve a list of FAQs that may contain information about sales tax.

ActiveFAQ has been created using ColdFusion technology and works on all versions of ColdFusion (including Windows and Linux).  MySQL is the database engine running behind the software application (included as a sql dump file in the "db" folder in your download).  Searches are performed using MySQL's FULLTEXT feature.  The advantages of Full-Text searches far outweigh standard search queries, which often use the 'LIKE' clause. 

Query results run with the common LIKE clauses often swing from accurate to less accurate very easily.  ActiveFAQ's use of MySQL FULLTEXT feature returns better results that are organized by relevance to the end-user's original search phrase.  Noise words such as and, if, or, the are automatically excluded from the search, thereby increasing the likelihood of the correct FAQ being found.