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Re:Craigslist blocks Yahoo Pipes by seiji on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @07:07PM (#971144)
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 It gets slightly better with searching on maps, but not by much.)

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Re:Craigslist blocks Yahoo Pipes by ams6110 on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @10:25PM (#971425)
Many 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.
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Re:Craigslist blocks Yahoo Pipes by seiji on Wednesday December 02, 2009 @01:22PM (#972554)
Craigslist isn't a "simplicity wins" situation, it's a lockin-by-failure-of-innovation situation (see: IE6).
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