Use the search bar at the top here to try the new search engine

The recommendations from subscribers to the Wintergreen Bulletin Board newsletter are hidden from search engines such as Google, which is one of several reasons why it has been difficult to provide a good search experience for the WBB users of the directory seeking out recommended area service providers.

Until now the search function on this website too often didn’t provide any results when it should have and, when it did provide results, the results were sometimes incomplete. There were better site search services available, but they were all too expensive or too complex to administer.

Our new search software on the website provides a much better experience. It’s affordable and the search service was happy to help us customize their code. Their software offers the WBB administrators useful statistics on what users are seeking. We’ll now see reports on search keywords that provided our users with no results. The admin dashboard also provides ways we might finetune how the search works.

Most importantly, the search now works.

Questions or recommendations? Email editors@wtgbulletinboard.org