InnoDB scales better than MyISAM. If you're talking about hundreds of millions of row then go for InnoDB and adapt a search engine. AFAIK, FULLTEXT becomes really slow after a certain point.
Therefore, go for InnoDB + a search engine of your choice.
Take a look at the answer for this question: Fulltext Search with InnoDB.
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