please help me conduct forum research

[nathaniel wilson]

hi everyone. does anyone know of a software program that can be used to
search and do research on forums to find specific questions and comments to
be used to form the content and interview questions inside of an infoproduct
please? this software would save a lot time searching forum by forum for
specific topics and concerns of the members of the forums. and if you are
very good with forum and internet research in relation to finding out the
wants/needs/desires of huge markets online please contact me.

[simon.q...@gmail.com]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, nathaniel wilson wrote:
I guess if your using unix you can download the forum messages then just doa
normal text search using something like grep that should work.

Simon Quantrill
Email: simon.q...@gmail.com
Web: http://www.quantrill.eu/

[NC]

I think you are deluding yourself. "Huge markets online" is a modern
myth.
People often look for things online precisely because their demands
don't
fit in with those of huge markets already served by offline merchants
or
large Web sites or because they want a way to solve their problems by
throwing their time rather than their money at them.

Let me give you one example. A lot of forum traffic concerns
problems
people are having with their computers or software. The problems are
real enough; the revenue potential is near-zero as very few people
are
willing to pay a stranger to have those problems solved.

Cheers,
NC