diff --git a/include/class.thread.php b/include/class.thread.php
index c69eb28549412bd25454a24f7df97334299331aa..741fb449a648513a72b752412a5a7f6107cb0dbd 100644
--- a/include/class.thread.php
+++ b/include/class.thread.php
@@ -1352,6 +1352,11 @@ class ThreadBody /* extends SplString */ {
         throw new Exception('display: Abstract dispplay() method not implemented');
     }
 
+    function getSearchable() {
+        return $this->body;
+        // TODO: Normalize Unicode string
+    }
+
     static function fromFormattedText($text, $format=false) {
         switch ($format) {
         case 'text':
@@ -1419,6 +1424,13 @@ class HtmlThreadBody extends ThreadBody {
         return trim($this->body, " <>br/\t\n\r") ? Format::sanitize($this->body) : '';
     }
 
+    function getSearchable() {
+        // <br> -> \n
+        $body = preg_replace('/\<br(\s*)?\/?\>/i', "\n", $this->body);
+        return Format::striptags($body);
+        // TODO: Normalize Unicode string
+    }
+
     function display($output=false) {
         if ($this->isEmpty())
             return '(empty)';