Craigslist is a classified advertisements website that allows users to post listings in categories like jobs, housing, personals, and items for sale. It was started in 1995 in San Francisco by Craig Newmark. Users can browse listings for over 450 cities worldwide for free. Listings are organized into categories and subcategories to make searching easy. Users communicate directly with each other to arrange transactions without involvement from Craigslist. Some criticism of Craigslist includes that it makes it too easy for illegal activities like puppy mills and undercuts local newspapers and small businesses.

1. How Craigslist Works
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2. Abstruct
● Craigslist (craigslist) is a community
site that is operated by Craigslist In
c. In San Francisco, California, USA. I
t was started by Craig Newmark in 1995.

3. What is the Craigslist?
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Craigslist.org, originally a San Franci
sco community electronic newsletter, is
now one of the most visited English lan
guage Web sites, with local classifieds
for more than 450 cities worldwide. The
site's main function is to host classif
ied ads that cover practically every ca
tegory you can think of, including hous
ing, job postings, items for sale, serv
ices and personals. There's also a foru
ms section that allows users to discuss
topics on everything from gardening to
the Linux operating system.

4. Strong point
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If all you want to do is browse the sit
e, you can just visit craigslist.org an
d click away. The site has a range of b
road categories, and each category has
several subcategories, making it easy t
o navigate to the appropriate section q
uickly. For example, the "for sale" cat
egory features subcategories like compu
ter, books, electronics, sporting, moto
rcycles and collectibles, among others.

5. Ads
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Most ads include the member's e-mail ad
dress. Craigslist offers a function tha
t masks e-mail so that members don't ha
ve to worry about their address being o
penly available. All transactions are b
etween the person who posted the ad and
the person responding to it. Craigslist
's employees don't get involved in any
transactions or discussions unless some
one reports a problem.

6. Criticism
● We have criticized that it is July 2005, Crai
gslist will allow ads from dog breeder, San F
rancisco Chronicle is said to be the cause of
the trade suspicious breeding and excess of p
itbull in the Bay Area.In January 2006, en: S
an Francisco Bay Guardian has published an ar
ticle of the contents when Craigslist will ad
vance to region, that you are trying to elimi
nate the other newspapers in the region. Crai
gslist is also'm with Wal-Mart that crush sma
ll business local when you advance to the loc
al people sell goods at a lower price.