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Industries revolutionised by the internet: 1. Porn 2. Real Estate 3. Jobs Without commenting further on #1, I have to say that I am very unimpressed by 99%
by albahk 19y ago
Industries revolutionised by the internet:
1. Porn
2. Real Estate
3. Jobs
Without commenting further on #1, I have to say that I am very unimpressed by 99% of Real Estate and Jobs websites out there. They get so much traffic because a poor real estate website is still infinitely better than waiting for Saturday's newspaper to come out (same with jobs).
I expect to see a site that "gets" Real Estate or Jobs soon, the same way Google "got" search a few years back.
- dcurtis 19y agoJobs and rental properties are handled pretty well by Craigslist these days.
- angstrom 19y agoAnd the information that can be found using Zillow and Indeed isn't half bad either.
- Alex3917 19y agoBeyond craigslist proper, Kexter did a really good job for a couple of years. It was craigslist apartment listings overlayed onto Google maps plus the GIS data of your choice, so you could browse apartments by crime rates, per capita income, etc. Unfortunately as a condition of using the data they weren't allowed to monetize it, so they eventually stopped updating it and the last time I checked it was broken.
- aneesh 19y agorenting is still annoying, even on craiglist. there's lots of room to improve.
- nazgulnarsil 19y agomake a porn site that uses the iTunes model of charging and i guarantee you'll make money. Lots of people don't want to sign up for a hardcore porn site, but if they could buy a few videos of their favorite performer for 99cents with paypal they would in a heartbeat.
- joshwa 19y agoI'm working on #2 and #3.