My latest ingenious contribution to the Site Talk board regarding Searh/ Keywords.

[jrvedivici]

I just noticed while doing a search on a board for a particular topic I did the search and it provided me with all threads that contained my keyword search.

However many of these threads had 50/100/150+ comments in them and no way to find without reading each response which one's are regarding your keyword search. So how about when you do a key word search and the matching threads come up the keyword is "high-lighted" with the comments that match the keyword so you can quickly scroll and find which comment in a large thread matches your search.

Other wise I think most people like myself will just be overwelmed and give up/ not bother.

Mod's you can email me and I will send you my address for my residual checks on my awesome ideas!!

[Midlife]

Most site-based search engines I'm familiar with DO highlight the search terms. Not sure why this one doesn't, but the Find function really is helpful either way.

Also............ doing a Google search and including the word Chowhound with your search terms sometimes works better than the site's own function.

[ipsedixit]

Or just click on "Expand All" then Ctrl-F and type in your search term. Voila! Highlighted terms.

[jmcarthur8]

Ipsedixit, from a hot key illiterate, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

[jrvedivici]

While thank you very much for your response (I'm not sharing my profits from this idea with you) however maybe now you can explain to me how the whole expanded/non-expanded/some expanded some not.......layout of pages works. I tried to experiment with your instructions above but every thread I'm trying the posts are all expanded already. lol

[ipsedixit]

That just means you're new to the thread so don't worry about expanding the posts. Just Ctrl-f and type your search term in the pop-up box.

[Jacquilynne]

If you've never visited a particular thread (while logged in) before, all the posts will be expanded, so that you can read them all.

If you've visited a thread before, and there are new posts since the last time you visited, the posts you've already seen will be collapsed so that you can see just the new posts.

If you've visited a thread before and there are no new posts since the last time you visited, all the posts are expanded, since you clearly want to read something in the thread, but the software has no idea what.

[Justpaula]

I use Ctrl-F for everything! EVEN IF the keywords are highlighted, clicking "Next" drops me down to them so I don't have to scroll, scroll, scroll. But, highlighting is not a bad idea.