I guess the old adage is true — no press is bad press.  We have been making great progress with the build out of our classifieds index in part thanks to the increased visibility we gained as a result of this issue.

We now have about 6M active listings in the index (which spans 50+ metro areas in the US).  This brings us above the listing account we had about a month ago when we indexed Craiglist.  And there are a lot more listings out there.  I suspect we’ll double our index in the next few months.

We still miss Craigslist.  Unfortunately, I don’t have much to report in with respect to getting them back.  I’m still hoping to get a chance to talk to them.  I have lots of ideas about how to address concerns that they’ve raised in a few press articles.