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Craigslist reportedly blocks search engines to kill competitors

by rakingleaves on 8/7/12, 5:41 PM with 5 comments

• by paulgb on 8/7/12, 5:59 PM

  As a PadMapper user this saddens me, but I can only wonder why they didn't do it sooner. Craigslist posts are so short-lived, I don't know why they would want them indexed.

• by sigmadelta on 8/7/12, 6:00 PM

  Did these people do any fact checking? I just ran another test:

  visit http://sfbay.craigslist.org/bia/

  spot ad for a kids Giant MTX 250 bike http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik/3189980073.html

  perform a google search for the same thing http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acraigslist.org+giant+m...

  result number two in the set is that posting, with the following summary:

  Giant MTX 250 Kid's Mountain Bike sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik/3189980073.html 4 minutes ago ... Giant kid sized hardtail mountain bike for sale. It is a 21 speed, and it has front suspension. The bike was always taken care of, and is in perfect ...

  "4 minutes ago" tells me Google is having no problems hitting craigslist.