Search Help

The search tool allows you to search for a massage / bodywork provider anywhere in the world.  Its many powerful and convenient features are explained on this page.

How to Search

Enter your ZIP code or select a city.  We initially attempt to do this for you (more about this at the bottom of this page), but you're free to correct it or change it to suit your needs.  If you're in the U.S.A. and know your ZIP code, enter it here.  If you're traveling about and either do not know your present ZIP code or you're outside the U.S.A., click the "select a city" link and you will be given an opportunity to select any city in the U.S.A.  [Cities outside the U.S.A. will follow in the future.]

The box directly below the ZIP code will show you the location corresponding to the entered ZIP code or the selected city.  You can't enter anything into this box.  It's read-only for your reference.

If you do not specify a location, your search will include all providers from all locations around the world (but no more 250 providers will ever be returned in a single search).

Find a massage within ???? miles / kms.  Enter the number of miles (or kilometers) you're willing to travel to your massage.  If you're not willing to travel (e.g. you want the provider to come to you), enter 0.

How we use your ZIP code / city and distance:  The matching system automatically looks for a provider in two directions: (1) the incall direction, for a provider YOU can reach within the specified distance, and (2) the outcall direction, for a provider willing to travel TO you.  If you are within range in either direction, the provider is considered a potential match.

Only profiles w/photos.  Not all providers have photos in their profiles.  If you only want to see the profiles that have photos, check the box.

Show me just the photos, no description.  Check this box if you're only interested in a quick list (by photo) of the available providers in your area.  If you select this option, you can always click on a photo to view the provider's complete profile.  If you do not select this option, the full profile (and any photos) of each matching provider will be listed.

Look for.  If you have a special interest, you can search the provider database by keywords.  The returned results will include only those providers whose profile contain one or more of the specified keywords.  Optionally, the keyword search will probe not only the provider's posted profile but any and all published reviews for the provider as well.

For example, if you enter the keywords "swedish shower", the results will include only those profiles containing the exact words "swedish" and/or "shower".  Each occurrence of the specified keywords is counted and used to order the returned results such that the best matches are always listed first.

To improve search results, common words (e.g. 'the', 'and', 'she', etc.) as well as single digits and single letters are ignored.

Search reviews for keywords too.  If the option is selected, keyword searches will extend to the provider's published reviews in addition to the provider's profile.

Search provider's personal keywords.  If the option is selected, keyword searches will extend to the provider's "personal" keywords in addition to the provider's published profile (and reviews, if also selected).  Some providers attach additional (unpublished personal) keywords to their profiles which may cause you to find them in your searches even though those keywords are not actually found anywhere within their published profiles and/or reviews.

Favor newest.  (This option is available only to Friends) If the option is selected, additional preference is given such that the newest providers and those providers who have more recently updated their ads may be listed ahead of some other providers, regardless of distance.

List professional providers only.  The provider database may include skilled volunteers / amateurs as well as professionals.  If you wish to select from professional providers only, you should check the box.  Note that all information is courtesy of the Provider.  Please read the disclaimer at the bottom of this page.

Other preferences.  You can also restrict your search to providers who have volunteered certain demographics about themselves and/or their services.  If you choose to restrict your search in this manner, your search results may exclude certain providers who in fact meet your demographic requirements but who have not disclosed such for search purposes.

By checking the corresponding options, you can restrict your search to any one or more of the following:

• Gender of provider (default is "either")
• Ethnic origin of provider (default is "any")
• Client demographics (default is no option checked)

Once set, your "other preferences" will remain in effect for all your searches until you exit your browser or disable session cookies or walk away from your session for an extended period of time.

Special Note: You can apply similar demographic search restrictions by entering special "Look for" keywords.  For example, if you enter the keywords "female Caucasian", your search will match any provider (within matching proximity) who has voluntarily self-identified as a female Caucasian.  Of course, it will also match any provider who happens to use those same words in his/her profile/reviews as well.  Likewise, if you enter the keyword "gay", your search will return providers who openly state they work with gay clients, along with providers who have the word "gay" in their profiles and/or reviews.  In short, if you want to restrict your search specifically to provider-volunteered demographic information rather than expand it to similar words in provider profiles/reviews, you should use the "other preferences" link.  You may, however, get a larger (but less precise) set of search results if you use a keyword search.

How Your Search Results Are Ordered

Your search results are ordered by objective criteria, to make them more useful to YOU, the client.

If your search is restricted to specific keywords, your results are primarily sorted by the decreasing frequency of those keywords in the providers' profiles/reviews (i.e. highest scoring providers are presented at the top of the list).  When two or more providers achieve equal keyword scores, the results are then further sorted by distance and "newness" as described next.

Whether or not you used keywords, your results are also sorted in relation to the distance between you and the provider such that providers closer to you are presented closer to the top of the list than those farther away.  When two or more providers are approximately the same distance from you, a provider who has more recently updated his profile will appear ahead of the others in the search results list.  If the option to "favor neweest" providers is selected (option available to Friends only), preference is given to the newest providers and those providers who've more recently updated their ads over closer providers.

In summary, your results are sorted in the following order: keyword score (if keywords were specified), distance, newness.

Hidden & Subscription-Only Profiles

Hidden profiles. Each provider chooses whether his/her profile will be available in search results.  In some cases, a profile not available in search results may be viewable by a direct URL link (made available only by the provider).  We cannot disclose such URLs even though you may use them to access provider profiles.  In other cases, a provider may have disabled his/her profile so that it cannot be viewed under any circumstances at the current time.  These are "hidden" profiles.

Subscription-only profiles. When a search returns many results, such as when you request a wide search in a busy metropolitan area, we may limit the number of results returned in any one search and/or give preference to subscribing members.  Whether you are a provider or you're searching for a provider, if you are a subscribing member to MassageAnywhere.com, you will be given preference in such search results.  Any profile not reported in the search results which would have been reported if either you or the profiled member were subscribing members is considered a "subscription-only" profile.

Your Location?

When you first visit our web site, we may make an attempt to complete the location fields (ZIP code and/or city) for you.  Sometimes we're successful, sometimes we get it wrong, and sometimes we just can't.  When we get it right, you might be a bit surprised, maybe even wonder how we knew.  Really, we don't know anything (and we don't want to know).  We only guess at your city based on Internet routing information which is not personally identifiable to you.  If we guess the wrong city for you, please just ignore our attempt and enter whatever ZIP/city you're interested in.

We are very strong privacy advocates, and we're happy to answer any concern you may have regarding your privacy.  As a welcome visitor, you are anonymous to us and we prefer to keep it that way.  If you haven't already, please read our Privacy Policy.

DISCLAIMER

All listed Providers agree to abide by our Code of Ethics.  All information is Provider reported.  MassageAnywhere.com is an independent entity and is NOT a referral agency; as such, we have not and cannot endorse, verify, guarantee or warrant any Provider's claims, services or products.

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