Is there anyway to implement better search in Couch? I have a database for a collection where a lot of the items may be searched for with three characters, or partial words, which I understand MySQL's fulltext search isn't able to do.

Is there any plugin or something that can enable a better, more full featured search that works with less than four characters and partial words?

Thanks!

Search is notoriously difficult to do well. Perhaps you should look into Google's custom search (https://cse.google.com/cse/). The new Couch documentation is using it.

Thanks Tim,

Figured someone would mention that

Unfortunately the nature of the content means I need specific fields to show in the results, along with an image associated with each "page".

I use a Tags editable for my users to input for searching. My audience is car relation so tags would be like

bucket seat, seat, racing seat, sparco.

That means when they do a search it'll show all the tags that have been set and whatever has been posted within the title.

Not sure if this would help you