What is Craigslist?

Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements – with jobs, internships, housing, personals, erotic services, for sale,barter, wanted, services, community, resumes, and pets categories – and forums on various topics.

Started in San Francisco in 1995 by Craig Newmark, Craigslist is perhaps the ultimate site for classified listings. The website is built around communities, and craigslist now offers sites in 450 cities and countries throughout the world. Millions of people visit this site every day and use the Craigslist Handbook.

Craigslist popularity

Craigslist does seriously undercut competitive newspapers through its classified ads. This is especially the case for ads other than jobs. A person wanting to sell a sofa, a car, or rent property, saves a lot of money by listing on craigslist instead of in a newspaper. In fact, they pay no money for doing so, whereas they would pay quite a bit to a large city newspaper.

Also Craigslist was the friend of people selling their stuff online and the friend of very small companies which used the site to advertise for free.

Applications and gadgets

Being so popular Craigslist inspired the development of a whole series of applications and gadgets like Craigsphone application.

To stay up to date with the news visit Craigslist News.

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