Saturday, September 16, 2006

Yahoo vs. Craigslist

Yahoo will be launching Yahoo Marketplaces as an attempt to take a chunk of the online classifieds business (which has achieved growth of 47% in one year). This new unit will combine Yahoo Listings with other units and will be led by Hillary Schneider, former executive at Knight Ridder.

As a Craigslist fan, it will be interesting to see what approaches Yahoo takes to gain share in this market, and how Craigslist and Trader Publishing Company - both controlling 75% of the market - react to maintain their spots.

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20060915YahooHiresNewspaperProToRunClassifieds.html

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