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Brokenness: Show me all apartments or rooms-for-rent in mountain view with dish washers, clothes washers, and covered parking. There's no way to (legitimately)
by seiji 17y ago
Brokenness: Show me all apartments or rooms-for-rent in mountain view with dish washers, clothes washers, and covered parking.
There's no way to (legitimately) outwardly index, categorize, or aggregate craigslist content.
(Related gripe: apartment searching in google is useless too: http://www.google.com/search?q=mountain+view+apartments http://www.google.com/search?q=mountain+view+apartments
It gets slightly better with searching on maps, but not by much.)
- ams6110 17y agoMany apartment/house finding sites have these features: search pages with dozens of checkboxes and dropdowns, and equally complex data entry pages for the people listing the apartments/houses. Yet Craigslist dominates. Simplicity wins.
- seiji 17y agoCraigslist isn't a "simplicity wins" situation, it's a lockin-by-failure-of-innovation situation (see: IE6).