MySQL: Something wrong with Fulltext search - Returning NO results

Question

I have a table places(name vachar(50), address text, description text) engine = MYISAM and few records.

I have been trying to do some example in here!,

Answer 1

In addition to Marcus' answer:

When I first started with FULLTEXT indexes in MySQL, I had problems with empty results - I was avoiding stop words and was also using long enough ones, so I was head-scratching a bit until I found this buried in the MySQL documentation:

The 50% threshold has a significant implication when you first try full-text searching to see how it works: If you create a table and insert only one or two rows of text into it, every word in the text occurs in at least 50% of the rows. As a result, no search returns any results. Be sure to insert at least three rows, and preferably many more. Users who need to bypass the 50% limitation can use the boolean search mode

This also explains why you got results (but with a "meaningless" score) when you set the query to operate IN BOOLEAN MODE