Digital Search Sites

Give public notices a modern digital home

Have a branded public notice search site for your newspaper that satisfies modern online expectations.

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Trusted by 1,600+ newspapers across the U.S.

A searchable notice page for your newspaper

Your digital search site gives readers a clear place to find public notices online.

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Why Search Sites

Keep your paper at the center of public access

Meet rising expectations for digital access with a branded, searchable public notice page that keeps your newspaper visible as the source of record.

A branded digital presence

Give your newspaper a dedicated public notice page that reflects your brand.

Automated statewide uploads

Send eligible notices to statewide search sites without manual work.

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Greater community access

Make notices easier for people in your local community to find online.

Two connected tools for digital public notice access

Help your community access public notices online while keeping your newspaper at the center. Make public notices easier to find, publish, and share.

Automatic uploads to statewide sites

Automatically send your eligible newspapers notices to websites where state-level posting is required or supported.

Automatic uploads to statewide sites

Automatically send your eligible newspapers notices to websites where state-level posting is required or supported.

Automatic uploads to statewide sites

Automatically send your eligible newspapers notices to websites where state-level posting is required or supported.

A digital archive for your paper

Column gives your newspaper a free public notice webpage, so readers can easily search and filter for notices.

A digital archive for your paper

Column gives your newspaper a free public notice webpage, so readers can easily search and filter for notices.

A digital archive for your paper

Column gives your newspaper a free public notice webpage, so readers can easily search and filter for notices.

How It Works

Publish once. Make notices accessible in the right places

Submit and process notices in Column.

Your team reviews, schedules, and manages notices through your regular Column workflow.

Notices appear on your branded search site.

Once published, notices populate a searchable page branded for your newspaper.

Notices upload to statewide search sites.

Where supported, Column sends notice data to the appropriate statewide destination.

Communities can search notices online.

Readers and stakeholders can find notices without calling your newspaper or searching print archives.

Why It Matters

Digital access is an important part of newspaper modernization

Column helps newspapers meet modern access expectations, comply with new requirements, and reinforce your role as the trusted source for public information in their community.

Stay ready for changing requirements

Show that your newspaper is already prepared for digital public notice access.

Stay ready for changing requirements

Show that your newspaper is already prepared for digital public notice access.

Stay ready for changing requirements

Show that your newspaper is already prepared for digital public notice access.

Reduce manual posting work

Avoid duplicate entry by publishing notices across local and statewide search sites from one workflow.

Reduce manual posting work

Avoid duplicate entry by publishing notices across local and statewide search sites from one workflow.

Reduce manual posting work

Avoid duplicate entry by publishing notices across local and statewide search sites from one workflow.

Improve transparency

Give the public a simpler way to search, verify, and access official notices online.

Improve transparency

Give the public a simpler way to search, verify, and access official notices online.

Improve transparency

Give the public a simpler way to search, verify, and access official notices online.

Strengthen publisher value

Show that newspapers can deliver trusted publication and modern digital access.

Strengthen publisher value

Show that newspapers can deliver trusted publication and modern digital access.

Strengthen publisher value

Show that newspapers can deliver trusted publication and modern digital access.

Connected Features

Search sites come free with the rest of Column

Explore everything Column can do for your public notice workflow.

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Online payments

Let customers pay invoices from the same account.

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Automated affidavits

Generate affidavits within 1-2 business days after publication.

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Customizations & rates

Configure notice types, rates, schedules, and templates.

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