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.

For teams placing tens, hundreds, or thousands of notices across multiple jurisdictions, every notice brings a new set of details to manage: the right newspaper, the right deadline, the right publication date, the right invoice, the right proof, and the right affidavit.

These are the pain points we hear every week:

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

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.

These are the pain points we hear every week:

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.

Specialized work.

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

Specialized work.

Automated statewide uploads.

Send eligible notices to statewide search sites without manual work.

Specialized work.

Greater community access.

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

Specialized work.

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.