inbound - 2:12 am on Dec 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

Event King,

Do you know how popular Craigslist is? They get Billions of page views a month. If I remember correctly it's in the top 50 used websites worldwide. I think you will struggle to find sites like it that are more popular.

I'm not being pro or anti Craigslist here, just pointing out a few things.

As for not liking the design, it's supposed to be simple and it doesn't seemed to have hurt them. Also the simple look and feel probably helps make people feel at ease, making them think it's non commercial.

On the point of commercialism, there isn't much that attracts a fee. Property in certain areas does but I think it's likely to be a while before they go down a fully commercial route (once they have a massive user base in most major western cities).

It hasn't made as big a splash in the UK as it has in the States, it will with time. When you consider that Craigslist serves around 500 Million page views a month to just 2 cities (SF/NY) it's frightening to think where it will be in a couple of years.

But you seem to think it's not all that, fair enough but I'd suggest you keep an eye on it if you are involved with Local Search. I'd kill to be in that position.