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Brian Dorry from LTech discusses a technique for implementing basic text search on Google App Engine's Datastore, which lacks full-text search support as of 2010. He outlines a method using Java Data Objects (JDO) to create a "starts with" search function by applying inequality queries that filter records beginning with a specific search string. This approach involves concatenating a Unicode replacement character to the search input, allowing the datastore to return results starting with the query term. Although the method is demonstrated using JDO, it can also be applied using GQL, offering a practical interim solution for developers until Google provides official full-text search capabilities.

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