Looking for a place to rent? Searching for a used car to buy? More often than not you'll begin your quest with some online classified advertising site. Or, maybe you'll be going through the classified ...

This story was written by David Kaplan. Over the past four years, the use of online classified ads by U.S. adults has doubled, according to a study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Web publishers intent on reviving the comatose online advertising market with bigger and noisier ads might take a lesson from the quiet and unobtrusive world of classified listings. People are ...

Craigslist vs. Facebook? Why Craigslist wins, big time I analyzed one week ago, with an inside preview of the new Facebook Marketplace classifieds offering. Both Craig Newmark, Craigslist, and Chris ...

The web has spawned all sorts of popular online activities—social networking, video sharing, blogging—but one of the more mundane has quietly grown into a leviathan. The use of Internet classified ads ...

What's in 120 cities, features four million classified advertisements a month, and is read all over? It's Craigslist. The online service offers up everything from cars to jobs to personal ads, and has ...

The familiar lament goes like this: Newspapers once enjoyed monopolies on classified ads, the “rivers of gold” that subsidized their whole operation. Then came Craigslist—web-based, sometimes sketchy, ...