“Ivy’s wanted a searchable database of the forum almost since the forum began, because the free software that allows her to keep the site up isn’t searchable, and she hasn’t had anyone willing pr able to do the compiling. Posters bookmarked their favorite threads, and swap them, but there’s been no way to trace a particular topic or theme through the site’s evolution” ( Gibson 121).
The person that said this quote was Cayce while on a plane to Japan to continue her search for the maker or makers of the footage. By this time in the book, she had just recently been hired by Bigend to find the makers of the film. She had just received a laptop with technology that had not been at her disposal before. This technology was much like Google but for the FFF only. It allowed to search themes within the posts on the forum. This helps Cayce piece together other peoples opinions and theories to help her figure out this challenge.
I think that it is interesting that before this Cayce thought that no one that was interested in the forum was able to make the technology to perform these tasks. I think that once Bigend and his money became a factor then more technology and help was available. The fact that people who were obsessed could not even figure this out but Bigend did confused me. If people were so obsessed wouldn’t they want this to help them figure out the makers? I think this really would help in understanding different themes and different theories.
