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Address Profile Craigslist operates the world's largest website offering community classifieds and forums. Users can find jobs, housing, goods & services, social activities, dates, advice, community information, and just about anything else -- all for free, and in a relatively non-commercial environment. The site earns revenues from job postings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, New York, Boston and Washington D.C. It also charges brokers $10 for apartment listings in NYC. The remaining cities and services are all free for users. EBay owns a 25% stake in Craiglist following the sale by a shareholder of the site in 2004. Craigslist started in the San Francisco Bay Area but has continued to expand since 1995 and now offers local sites in 450 cities in all 50 states and over 50 countries. Craigslist gets more than 15 million visitors each month and 5 billion page views. Users post more than 14 million ads each month including 750,000 jobs. History Craig Newmark was a programmer who started an e-mail list of events in San Francisco in 1995. Soon friends wanted to post jobs and apartment listings. Newmark wanted to call his site SF-Events but friends suggested he call it Craigslist to maintain its personal and down-to-earth nature. Craigslist was incorporated in 1999. It operates as a for-profit business. In 2000, the site expanded to Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, San Diego, Seattle and Washington DC. Craigslist has managed to maintain its
text-based design without using banner or text ads. The company
has turned down numerous advertising offers from major companies
in order to maintain its community and unique environment. © Copyright SVDaily.com |
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