This is more or less what I recently told a client who wanted search on a utility I built him. He wanted rich search, like using quote marks and database operat

This is more or less what I recently told a client who wanted search on a utility I built him. He wanted rich search, like using quote marks and database operators, but his budget for the whole project was about $1500. I told him that I could build the entire project, plus simple searches on the description fields with wildcard matching. Or I could give him fully featured search by using third party software, but for triple the budget. Explaining it that way got the message across, and it turned out that simple search was enough.