#Craigslist boolean search free#

Google is definitely content over interface (most of the time). the canonical reason for its death (CEO replaced within a week, 40% of staff laid off two months later) was Digg-v4, a graphical overhaul that also removed features. Luckily, the more popular sites I mentioned make it so one has to list their rental price.ДЄnd my final two gripes are that very few people respond to inquiries into any particular ad (I think this is universal though) and a good 60% of ads here in Brazil only want women renters. It's called doing business, paying money for a product or service, yet there's a real aversion to giving up the rental price in one's ad. Couchsurfing city-specific groups usually each have a sub-group for renting but a strange occurrence takes place there, almost no one puts the price-point. Instead, people use OLX (free) a little, Vivastreet (free) a little, EasyQuarto (paid) a little, and a few other sites that are either less popular or only work sometimes. It's there (here), it's usable, simple, and in Portuguese. As a Californian, and former user of CL, it boggles my mind why CL-Brazil isn't used. 'We' really, really need a CL-type site that everyone knows and uses. Let me get further into the rental side of the subject.ДЄs someone who, on many occasions, has rented in Brazil using classifieds sites, it's a mess. I am pretty sure when they look at their revenues (the ultimate metric), it is actually doing pretty well.

They have absolutely no incentive to change or improve. Craigslist is not in the business of people selling stuff to each other, they are in the business of attracting enough eyeballs for enough time to their site to click on enough job listings to keep their revenues flowing. It is actually in their best interest to make it harder for users to find what they want.

#Craigslist boolean search free#

Craigslist uses their massive user base on the free portion of their site as a significant competitive advantage over all other job posting sites. Maybe there is a chance the user get's bored of cruising bike listings or on one of their many trips to see the latest postings will click on the job section. If someone takes 30 minutes to find a used bike instead of five then great. It is in craigslist's best interest to keep users glued to their site. Keep in mind 95% of their site is not the product they are trying to sell. It's because key features that I want from a classified site are sorely lacking. It's not because it's not shiny or doesn't have gradients or drop shadows. The sad thing is they've fixed it to the 80% level in the Bay Area, where the whole (extended!) Bay Area (even Santa Cruz, which isn't really Bay Area) is on a single Craigslist site with sub-area filters, but they just leave it broken here.ДЄnd honestly so is the lack of 'map these results,' for times when you want to see which ones are closest, or which ones you could stop by on your way to work, or whatever.

Which means you have to violate Craigslist policies AND mess with your listing enough to get past its spam filter. Even if you're IN one of those places, which one do you look at? Sometimes three or four, if it's something you're willing to drive an hour to buy.ДЄnd if you're POSTING, where do you post? If you post a popular item to Boulder (because, say, you live in Boulder), then people in the next town over who only know about Denver won't see it, so you also have to post to Denver if you want everyone in a reasonable radius to see your item. If you're in between those places, which one do you look at? You have to look at more than one. For those of you in the Bay Area, that would be roughly like having a distinct San Francisco, San Rafael, San Jose, and Santa Cruz Craigslist. The problem is that there's a Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins Craigslist. I couldn't care less what Craigslist LOOKS like, but its usability is profoundly broken in some areas (Denver Metro, for example).