Our Listings

The results Vast returns in response to API queries and web searches come from a variety of sources.  Many are found by our web crawlers, which scour the web looking for relevant listings.  Others are sent to us by content owners who prefer to format them and deliver them directly, rather than have our crawler index their sites.

Many of these listings are indexed and redistributed without financial consideration paid to Vast.  We are compensated for delivering users to certain listings in some categories.

Vast always returns all the relevant results in response to a query, doing our best to sort the results according to the likely relevance to the user.  In categories where we have listings for which we are compensated, this also plays a role in the order in which they are returned.