VINE LocalForager
You're seeing this page because VINE's LocalForager crawler visited your website. Here's what that means and why.
What is LocalForager?
LocalForager is a geographic community indexer built by NEXICOG Ltd, a small research company in Aldershot, Hampshire. When someone visits vineai.net from your area, LocalForager notices the location and goes looking for genuine local websites nearby. Your site was discovered because it appears to be a real local resource.
How is this different from Google?
Google ranks websites by popularity metrics — backlinks, ad spend, domain authority. A chain restaurant with a marketing budget will always outrank a family-run café with a hand-built website, regardless of content quality.
LocalForager scores websites by content coherence — how well your content holds together as genuine, consistent information about your services and your area. A thoughtfully written local website scores higher than a templated corporate page with your town name swapped in. Quality of content matters. Marketing budget doesn't.
What does LocalForager do with your content?
- Indexes your site's content to build a local community directory
- Scores your content for coherence (a genuine quality signal)
- Categorises your site based on what it actually offers
- Does not store personal data, login pages, or private content
- Does not inject advertising or sell your ranking position
- Respects robots.txt and crawl-delay directives
How to opt out
Add the following to your robots.txt:
User-agent: VINELocalForager Disallow: /
Or contact us at [email protected] to request removal.
How to opt in (and why you might want to)
If your site is a genuine local resource — a shop, service, community group, event venue, creative practice — LocalForager will find you naturally. The best thing you can do is have genuine, coherent content about what you actually do. No SEO tricks needed. No payment accepted.
About VINE
LocalForager is part of VINE, a geometric AI system built by NEXICOG Ltd in Aldershot, Hampshire. VINE doesn't use large language models for ranking. It uses geometric coherence measurement — a fundamentally different approach to understanding content quality.
Learn more at vineai.net