Abstract: A method for retrieving Internet posts, implementable on a computing device, includes analyzing Internet posts to define segments in the Internet posts, where the segments at least contain terms consistent with user generation of a personal experience event report associated with a pre-defined search subject, and scoring each of the segments, where the score indicates a likelihood that the Internet post associated with the segment represents a user generated the personal experience report associated with the pre-defined search subject. A method for detecting personal experience event reports from user generated content on the Internet includes filtering a collection of Internet posts to include only Internet posts containing personal experience terms, and further filtering the filtered Internet posts by removing the Internet posts with non-personal experience terms.