I have seen posters on message boards(yahoo finance) who can pull up
old posts by any poster to refer to in their posts.  They do it in a
matter of minutes, if not seconds and I want to know how to do it.  I
would like to be able to search the posters (nik name) and narrow it
to a phrase or key word in one or more of their previous posts.  I
know about Yahoo's search feature at their finance message boards and
this is not what I'm referring to.  That never works well if at all,
some posters have figured out a unique solution for this and I want to
know how to do it.
Thank you

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Clarification of Question by colethornton-ga on 23 Mar 2006 22:04 PST

I would like to be able to search, as an example-
ColeThornton "this is a great stock" 
and limit the search to just the message board for a particular companies stock.
General Google searches are way to vague to do any good, and the
search feature at Yahoo finance is a joke!

You might try Google's site search, described here:
://www.google.com/features.html#sitesearch

For example, you might try a Google search of:
site:finance.yahoo.com ColeThornton
(although I tried that particular search, and it didn't return anything)

Thanks, I have already tried the obvious easy stuff and also had no
success.  There is a possibility that there are some who actually
monitor a particular message board and are entering the posts into
their own seperate data base, so they can search them.  I doubt they
are going to this much trouble and there must be an easier way to do
it, maybe some sort of utility.  In any event I appreciate your
thoughts.