Can I Search Across All Craigslist in US at Once?

Question

I need to find a very obscure piece of equipment and need to be able to search across all Craigslist's. Is this possible?

Answer 1

I would suggest you go to http://www.google.com and do a search that looks like this.

site:craigslist.org obscure equipment

Or just click this link and change the part in the search field after the .org

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=+site%3Acraigslist.org+obscure+equipment

Answer 2

No, you cannot. That question comes up a lot in the "Help Desk" and "Feedback" forums on CL. Take a look...
http://forums.craigslist.org/?

Mal...
You should disclaim that Google results are only that... Google's search results. They are what Google has indexed, and not necessarily real time search results for CL.

PS: (Is that REALLY "The Craig" responding?)

Answer 3

We're considering bigger scopes for search, but it has considerable performance implications, so we're deliberately moving slow on this.

thanks!

Craig
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