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Craigslist
| area_served 570 cities in 50 countries
| key_people Jim Buckmaster (CEO)
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| net_income
| num_employees 32
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| caption Screenshot of the main page on January 26, 2008
| website_type Classifieds, language [[English language|English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
| advertising None
| registration Optional
| launch_date 1995
| current_status Active
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Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements – with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums.
Description
Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list of friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area, before becoming a web-based service in 1996. After incorporation as a private for-profit company in 1999, Craigslist expanded into nine more U.S. cities in 2000, four each in 2001 and 2002, and 14 in 2003. , Craigslist has established itself in approximately 700 cities in 70 countries.
, Craigslist operates with a staff of 28 people.
Its sole source of revenue is paid job ads in select cities – $75 per ad for the San Francisco Bay Area; $25 per ad for New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston, Seattle, Washington D.C., Chicago, and Portland, Oregon – and paid broker apartment listings in New York City ($10 per ad).
The site serves over twenty billion page views per month, putting it in 30th place overall among web sites worldwide and 8th place overall among web sites in the United States (per Alexa.com on June 19, 2009), to over fifty million unique read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist