vast.com - online classifieds
Via TechCrunch, here's the most recent blog buzz: Vast.com just launched; another online experiment in the online classifieds area. With an impressive count of 3 billion indexed pages, and an open-minded API right from the start, they seem to be heading agressivelly up. They feature car ads, jobs and personal profiles from the crawled data, and spider blogs as well.
Of course, except for the everyday shorter blogs hype every web 2.0 comes around with; their business model is hazy and yet-to-be-defined.
Although they kind of were the first movers in the area, unless they make some smart marketing move again fast, Google Base will have a hard time catching up the recent flow of classifieds websites. Their main failures so far seems to be the fact that you need to point the data source to the base, and also google didn't establish yet an easy-to-catch identity for the base project.
Of course, except for the everyday shorter blogs hype every web 2.0 comes around with; their business model is hazy and yet-to-be-defined.
Although they kind of were the first movers in the area, unless they make some smart marketing move again fast, Google Base will have a hard time catching up the recent flow of classifieds websites. Their main failures so far seems to be the fact that you need to point the data source to the base, and also google didn't establish yet an easy-to-catch identity for the base project.
