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craigslist.org

Searching all Craigslist.org Cities

If you’ve ever used Craigslist.org – a fantastic and rather odd resource – you may have noticed that it’s heavily biased towards per-city searches. This is a pain if you want to do a national search across all cities that Craigslist.org operates sites for. A while back, I

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The Incredible LinkTron 5000(tm)!

I talked in a previous post about Unbreakable Links – that is, stating every URL in terms of a Google search rather than an absolute address. Great concept, but how do you determine which words on a web page are most likely to generate a unique search result? Well, wonder no

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