2. What is Craigslist?
• Craigslist is now one of the most visited
English language Web sites, with local
classifieds for more than 450 cities
worldwide. And you can find a lot of
information on this site, for example
housing, job postings, items for sale,
services and personals. There's also a
forums section that allows users to discuss
topics on everything.
3. History of Craigslist.
Craigslist site focuses on a specific
community, San Francisco. And As the
service grew in popularity, expanding well it.
The first city to join the network was Boston
in 2000. Today, more than 450 cities have a
craigslist community site.
4. The feature of Craigslist.
• It is a financial of Craigslist. The site
earns revenue by setting fees for job
postings in a few cities and for apartment
listings. The fee authorizes the user to
post a job in one category -- if the user
wishes to post the same job in multiple
categories, he or she must pay a fee for
each one.
5. Future work of Craigslist
• One of the biggest challenges for the craigslist
community is weeding out scam artists. The
site has a section describing common scam
tactics and what users should do if they come
across them. Scams might involve fake
money orders or checks, bait-and-switch
schemes (in which you think you're getting
one thing but end up with another), phishing
schemes designed to obtain personal
information, identity theft schemes and other
unethical and illegal activities.
