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The Internet's ability to achieve significant scale and speed has enabled near-instant loading of web pages. However, this vast scale is now in conflict with relevance. It's increasingly clear that scale is the enemy of local economic issues, contextual challenges, and the needs of underrepresented groups.

Understanding user needs is at the heart of effective search design. No search architecture will work universally across all categories. Whereas Google's product begins and ends with a search bar, trading off functionality for simplicity, vertical search has distinct advantages that horizontal software can never achieve.

Our mission is to organize small business information worldwide and make an economic impact by creating a community of people who actively pursue economic interests together to make a more significant impact than they could alone.