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Post by raccoonone » Tue, Jan 24, 2012, 9:39 PM UTC

underwater wrote: post #27

Nice interface. A few thoughts: * There is no way to get back to the home screen. If I want a blank slate I have to manually clear out the fields. * I can't bookmark searches, send them to friends or search for multiple models at the same time because everything is cookie based. Having my search from my last session come up when I enter http://www.carsabi.com/ is also a bit creepy. * Clearing the "max price" field is…

Post by zavulon » Tue, Jan 24, 2012, 9:44 PM UTC

cbr wrote: post #20

The zipcode doesn't deal with leading zeros on autodetection properly. Mine said "2138" where it should have said "02138", so it took me a minute to realize it was a zip code.

Post by ChaseB » Tue, Jan 24, 2012, 9:49 PM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #32

Part of the problem with this is that nearly all of the best deals I've found on Craigslist (mostly camera lenses) were because the person actually misspelled the one key word in the title, which lead me to be the only person (or one of very few) who noticed the listing. So I do hope that "Mazda Miata" also looks for listings without the word "Mazda" and also looks for the misspelled "Maita", etc, as well

Post by timsegraves » Tue, Jan 24, 2012, 9:52 PM UTC

Post by juiceandjuice » Tue, Jan 24, 2012, 9:56 PM UTC

senthil_rajasek wrote: post #15

According to the Craigslist Terms Of Use ( http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use ) 7. CONDUCT You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content: ... u) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service - unless expressly permitted by craigslist; I am wondering if you already have permission from craigslist?