http://web-professor.net/wp/2007/10/23/the-fake-local-market-on-craigslist/ About programming for the web and online marketing. Helping others by creating tools for webmasters, search marketers, and seo's. Teaching others to program through php tutorials, c# tutorials, and other web programming tutorials and scripts. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:32:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://web-professor.net/wp/2007/10/23/the-fake-local-market-on-craigslist/comment-page-1/#comment-72683 TunnelRat Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:46:13 +0000 http://web-professor.net/wp/2007/10/23/the-fake-local-market-on-craigslist/#comment-72683 I just did a stint at an online automotive site and they would get their used car data from vast.com, which was somehow able to crawl all of Craigslist's used car posts, and resell them to other sites. But checking out vast lately, I noticed that all their listings were from dealers. I think they bet their whole model on screen scraping the data. I just did a stint at an online automotive site and they would get their used car data from vast.com, which was somehow able to crawl all of Craigslist’s used car posts, and resell them to other sites. But checking out vast lately, I noticed that all their listings were from dealers. I think they bet their whole model on screen scraping the data.

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