We had a pretty lengthy discussion about this before the summer, and the 
consensus seemed to be that a fulltext-based approach looked most 
viable. I actually wrote an extension that does that, and promised to 
release it soon; that was quite a few months ago, and I never got around 
to it. I'll release it properly when I have time, which will hopefully 
be before Christmas :D

The code needs some tweaking and refactoring, though. It's pretty 
tightly integrated with the article text search (both functions in one 
form) and has all kinds of weird features, because the guy who paid me 
to write it wanted them. It also doesn't support three-letter word 
searching (which core does these days, using a prefix hack), which is 
pretty bad since categories with short titles (or stopword titles) won't 
be found either.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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