Links ARCHIVE: CNN Money - Craigslist Meets Google

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Published on May 1, 2005 By joeKnowledge In Websites

If only Craigslist has Google Maps added to it.... Oh wait here it is:
Craigslist Meets Google maps

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SOURCE: CNN Money

Is Craigslist a Google 2.0?

Craigslist's growth and fanatical user devotion can't be discounted. Will it ever go public?
August 5, 2004: 3:30 PM EDT
By Eric Hellweg, CNN/Money contributing columnist

BOSTON (CNN/Money) - My found-through-Craigslist inventory runs deep. My last two apartments. My dining room table. My living room couches. My futon. Red Sox tickets. Freelance writing assignments. I sold my car through the service.

Do you Craigslist? OK, it doesn't quite have the ring of the now-classic "Do you Yahoo?" pitch line, but tech investors would do well to keep their eyes on Craigslist.org, the San Francisco-based international swap meet.

Craigslist began as a daily e-mail sent out by founder Craig Newmark in 1995 and is now a motley collection of want ads and personals, with a little space left over for rants. Most of those ads are free, so the site has never seemed to have much of a business model.

But it has something in common with successful Web businesses like Amazon, eBay, Google, and Yahoo!: a fanatical user base.

Craigslist is incredibly popular. In July the site crossed the 1 billion monthly pageviews mark for the first time -- doubling its year-ago traffic level, according to CEO Jim Buckmaster.

"Like Google and eBay, people have fantastic experiences with Craigslist and that's what spreads the word," says Gary Stein, an analyst with Jupiter Media.

It's been profitable for five years, and until this week, the only way it made money was by charging $75 for each job posting on the Bay Area page. It just announced that it will begin charging $25 for job listings in New York City and Los Angeles, two cities that make up half of the 120,000 job postings the site runs in an average month.

By my back-of-the-envelope calculations, the site, which employs...

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