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Use of FREETEXT in full text search

Tags: full, text, freetext
Hi everyone,
                 I would have thought that if I had a column called product_desc and if one of the records contained the following for product_desc:

<h1>Ladder</h1><br>This is a very big ladder and quite safe.


That if I ran:

SELECT product_desc  
FROM product_table
WHERE FREETEXT (*, 'Ladder')

Given the following from BOL:
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FREETEXT
Is a predicate used to search columns containing character-based data types for values that match the meaning and not the exact wording of the words in the search condition.
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It wouldn't return the record mentioned above, as FREETEXT would determine <h1>Ladder</h1> to mean something else? And thus this record wouldn't be returned? I haven't set <h1> or </h1> to be noise words, so why does this use of FREETEXT return this record?

Any ideas?

Thanks to anyone.
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Question Asked By: freshwebbers
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