How results are ordered

Each topic has one default order, applied equally to everyone:

• Services, products, activities, opportunities and articles: newest first. Where a price sort is offered, choosing it sorts by price, lowest first.
• Places: alphabetical by name; you can switch to newest first.
• Events: by date, the next one first.
• The organisations directory: in the order organisations joined the platform, oldest first. With a search query, by how well the profile matches the words you typed.

Search ranks by how well a result matches your words, combining exact text matching with AI-assisted semantic matching (which is why search is marked as AI-assisted). If you share your location, nearby results rank higher — results further away stay in the list, lower down. Nothing else affects search order. Payment never does.

Discovery pages show up to three labelled shelves on top of the normal lists. “Trending” ranks by recent activity on the platform. “Fresh picks” shows the newest entries from the last 30 days.

“Featured” shows a capped selection from organisations that are verified or hold a paid subscription (every paid plan includes the verification badge), together with organisations our team has selected editorially — and we may also keep an organisation off the shelf. Those choices are recorded with a reason and are not sold: nobody can pay to be selected. Being featured never changes an organisation's position in the normal lists or in search — it only makes it eligible for this one labelled shelf.

Where promotion exists (currently: requests on the Wanted board), promoted entries appear in a separate, labelled strip capped at three, and the list below them stays ordered by most recent. A promoted entry is paid or included in a subscription, and is always labelled as such.

Position in browse lists and search results is not for sale. There is no mechanism — public or private — to pay for a higher ranking. If that ever changes, this page will say so before it does.

Anyone with an account may review an organisation. We additionally invite people who told us they worked with a business through a request on Canarionet — the invitation does not depend on how satisfied they were, reviews are never rewarded, and we do not verify that the work took place (we say so next to every review section). Ratings do not affect ranking; they are shown, not counted into the order.