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How rows get filed

The method, in full. Enough to put any row back together from nothing, or to discard one with its reason attached.

Filed Method Scope United States Compiled by The Supply Room desk

This is the full method, set down so anyone can reconstruct a row from nothing, or discard it with a stated reason. It runs in a fixed order: the state a cell can hold, how it is dated, what strikes a row out, and why a position carries no score.

The three paperwork states

Every seller cell holds one of three states, and those three are kept distinct, never merged down to two.

  • Published: the file opens on the storefront's own pages, nobody emailed and no account needed.
  • On request: the storefront has promised, in writing, to hand over the file to anyone who asks for it.
  • Absent: no file was located and none was offered. That is a remark about the record, not a charge against the material.

The fetch-date stamp and the not-established value

A channel is confirmed off the storefront's own live pages. It is never taken from a directory entry, a listing title, or a search-result snippet, and never from the shape of a domain name. Where that read did not happen, the cell reads not established, page not read, and the row carries the date it was compiled. On this build, no page beneath the ranked commercial domains was fetched, so every commercial cell in the table reads not established, page not read. A blank cell is a legitimate output here, and it is preferred to an inference in every case.

What disqualifies a row

A returned domain is held out of the table when it is a discussion surface rather than a supply route. reddit.com and facebook.com both ranked for the phrase and are filed as returned-but-not-filed, because no thread, post, or profile on either was read this run. A source that failed to fetch is not cited at all: a failed fetch is a tooling outcome, not evidence, so the correct response is silence rather than a guess.

Why position is not a score

Rows sort by lane, then alphabetically inside a lane. Both steps run by rule, neither is for sale, and a storefront that pays sits exactly where a storefront that pays nothing sits, once their lane and paperwork match. Who pays for what is filed in full at who pays for what.

Scope and research use

This page files what a federal label record states and what a seller publishes where a reader can open it, and nothing past that line. Material in the open-shelf lane is laboratory stock, not an approved medicine. This site weighs no one's circumstances and names nothing safe or effective. A licensed clinician is the destination for any question about a person.