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Thank you for this information.
I was having search problems as well and this fixed my problem.
My hosting providing (Bluehost) also had these tables set to "utf8_bin" and I adjusted them to "utf8_general_ci" and it fixed my search problem.
Aside from the products_name, products_description, and customer tables are there any other tables that you would recommend adjusting?
Thanks again!
This post was a big help.
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