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Site Content Searches?

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Not really a coding question as such but it might lead there, so popped this in the Code forum.

Basically I'm working on a project for someone that requires a search on a large listing of companies and I have a couple of questions on the feature

The client wants the search to be done on Type, Location and/or Name. Not so hard except the data is pretty poor and these tend not to return very much.
Would it be beneficial to add a Keywords column to the database and allow the users and admins to add tags to items which could also be searched by?

Also, the client wants a "Popular/Frequent Searches" panel, to get this information will I need to store every search carried out? Is there an easier way of doing this?

Just looking for ideas from people who may have implemented these types of features before. Apart from simple searches I've not really done anything on this scale before
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