# Full-text search

A step of the [Cloud application](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application) tree on Gradus, in the Data & storage area: DB, cache, queues.

Page: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/full-text-search

Add a search index for free-text lookups so users find things by meaning, not by exact match.

Usually comes after: [Indexing & query tuning](https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/step/indexing-and-query-tuning).

## Prompt for your AI assistant

```
Add full-text search over the main user-facing records using the database's search features or a dedicated search engine, with indexing kept in sync on writes.
```

Every step of the tree: https://gradus.kazet.blog/tree/cloud-application/llms.txt