Case Study: Ecological Internet achieves powerful environmental portal search with Thunderstone Webinator

Webinator as an indexing and retrieval tool for creating vertical search portals on network hubs

Ecological Internet, a nonprofit focused on climate, forests, and environmental conservation, needed a practical way to search and retrieve information from thousands of reviewed scientific and related websites. With a very small budget, the organization wanted an off-the-shelf, fully implemented search solution that could be installed quickly and would support its specialized content portals for conservation professionals.

Thunderstone’s Webinator was implemented to crawl, index, and search Ecological Internet’s curated web resources, including external links where appropriate. The solution proved stable, was straightforward to deploy, and enabled the organization to build high-quality vertical search portals that now serve more than 35,000 visitors per day and search across five million URLs.

Ecological Internet

Glenn Barry

President and Founder