We’ve been very happy to see the prominence of search in the classifieds market grow so quickly.    We believe that search is a vital element to making online classifieds a great medium for both buyers as well as classified advertisers.  Another search engine for classifieds launched yesterday.  We welcome Vast to the crusade. 
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Today Oodle introduced an API that enables any marketplace to easily integrate Oodle Search.  You can see two different implementations at Lycos and Backpage.com.
Using the API benefits a marketplace by helping their users find what they’re looking for — both from listings posted directly on their site or from listings available in other local marketplaces.  [...]