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The "Craigslist killer" is killing itself

Kijiji, eBay's online classified service, has landed in the United States with a resounding thud. To see why, just visit the site and compare it to Craigslist. Kijiji shows would-be users a punishingly slow, Flash-animated map of the U.S.; Craigslist, by contrast, loads an imageless list of cities in less than a second. The result is plain to see in the number of listings each site has attracted; Kijiji's take of the U.S. classifieds market, so far, is microscopic. eBay spokesman Hani Durzy brags to News.com about how much the auction site has supposedly learned from Craigslist, in which it took a 25 percent stake three years ago. What do they say about leading a horse to water?

9:35 AM on Fri Jul 6 2007
By Owen Thomas
1,226 views, 7 comments

Latest by la-di-dah: I'm not here to toot the horn of Kijiji, but are you on dial-up or something? I'm actually surprised at how quickly it manages to load - all things being equal and all that. Anyway, if you fancy a smack down more »