2. About Craigslist
● Local information community site where you'd
like residents to post various information it is
limited and ticket information, such as real
estate baseball information, Jobs, concerts and,
in urban and regional specific.
3. Networks
● It is said to be home to sites of 300 cities for the
United States and abroad, to collect the unique
users of 10 million per month in total, and there
is also a four billion page views of a number of
simultaneous accesses. EBay's online auction
giant has invested 25% in Craigslist, it attracted
the attention in August 2004.
4. Financial
● Advertising fees are mostly free despite
revenue Craigslist has continued to grow, sales
for 2005 are estimated at $ 20 million. Because
the ad can be posted free of charge, a
tremendous blow to sales of advertising
industry, such as Web advertising and other
newspaper advertising, there is also estimated
that the amount of the loss and up to several
million U.S. dollars per year.
5. Problem
● San Francisco Chronicle suspicious of buying
and selling over-breeding of pit bulls in the Bay
Area Craigslist will allow ads from dog breeder
● Was criticism that it is you may be responsible.
● January 2006, en: San Francisco Bay Guardian
has issued an article of content when Craigslist
to advance to the region that you are trying to
eliminate the other newspaper in the region.
Craigslist, is also 's along with Wal-Mart, which
crush a small local company when doing
business in the region, to sell at a low price the
various articles.
6. conclusion
● Craigslist is a breakthrough very web site.
● System that allows you to advertise for free,
especially very interesting.
● However, there is also a variety of problems.
