Intermedia search problem

I am using intermedia to index a CLOB and search for keywords. I am building that index every 4 hours. It is working fine once I built the index.
But the problem is, If I modify any record, before building the index, the modified record is shown for every search regardless of the word is there in that CLOB column or not.
How to solve this problem, any ideas.
Thanks in advance.
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In Tab1
id CLOB column
1 Skills: Oracle, Forms, Reports
2 Skills: Windows98, UNIX, Linux
If you take above table, after creating the index, if I am searching for word "Oracle", it is returning ONLY first record, which is correct.
If I am modifying the 2 nd record, assume I am adding Windows NT to 2nd record.
After modification table looks like this
id CLOB column
1 Skills: Oracle, Forms, Reports
2 Skills: Windows98, UNIX,Linux Windows NT
But before building Context index, if I am searching for "Oracle", it is returning record 1, 2. But there is no "Oracle" key word in 2 nd record. If I create index then it works fine.
But I can create context index, every time there is new record or modification of old record, as it is costly.
How to solve this abnormal behaviour.
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Omar Alonso ([email protected]):
>But the problem is, If I modify any record, >before building the index, the modified
record is shown for every search regardless
of the word is there in that CLOB column or not. I don't understand the problem very well. Could you provide a small test case? What is the unexpected behaviour?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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