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Craigslist deliberately forces you to interact within your local sphere. It may suck if you're on the border of two of their regions, but it helps them keep a l
by akd 18y ago
Craigslist deliberately forces you to interact within your local sphere. It may suck if you're on the border of two of their regions, but it helps them keep a local focus. They could easily implement nationwide search.
- derefr 18y agoI'm surprised no one's built an app that just spiders the craigslist database and allows you to query it in more interesting ways than the craigslist developers could think of.
- Shooter 18y agoThere have been NUMEROUS apps that provide beefed-up searching (multi-city,etc.) for CraigsList. Most get in trouble with CL because they're violating CL's TOS. Craig and Company want you on their site, not on an aggregation site that sucks their listings...so they shut aggregators and scrapers down pretty quickly. OLX is, if I recall correctly, one of the many companies that has already gotten in trouble for doing this.
- mhb 18y agoI don't see what goal of theirs is facilitated by having a crippled search function. Someone in a border is going to look in the neighboring regions anyway - it just makes it painful for them and leaves the door open for a more sensible competitor.