“Show all except” in MySQL Boolean Full-Text Searches

Question

With MySQL Boolean Full-Text Searches...

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/fulltext-boolean.html

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Answer 1

No, but it would be equivalent to simply NOT the condition:

SELECT *
FROM foo
WHERE NOT MATCH (bar) AGAINST ('blah blah2')

of course such a query can't possibly actually use the fulltext index for quick lookup.