The thing that strikes me is that it would have been a lot smarter for craigslist to either buy padmapper or create their own version of it. I get craigslist ge

The thing that strikes me is that it would have been a lot smarter for craigslist to either buy padmapper or create their own version of it. I get craigslist general stance of keeping things simple because its hard to predict the consequences of changes (something that's been brought up in interviews w/ craig in the past), and the upsides of keeping the site as basic as possible, but with something like padmapper you can almost view it as being a real life proof of concept that's been shown to work. Obviously it's something people want, so why wouldn't they integrate it? I don't get the business goal here.