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With all the attention Google has garnered due
to Google Base, and with Microsoft doing likewise with upcoming ‘Fremont’ - a free classifieds advertising venture - Craigslist continues to chug ahead almost like nothing’s happened.

In a recent Fortune magazine article, Craig plans on adding more pay-to-post markets for job listings.

The new markets include Boston, Seattle, Washington, D.C. and San Diego. Craig currently charges $75 for single postings in San Francisco and $25 in New York City and Los Angeles.

On a sidenote to job listings, Craig plans on charging for real estate listings in New York in 2006, which would be a first for something other than jobs.

Most of the remaining content of the story focuses on how much pain Craigslist has dealt to the print media and the nations’ newspapers. However, the story also touches on the pain Craig is dishing out to job boards like Monster and HotJobs, saying:

Online disruptors like Monster.com and Yahoo’s
HotJobs divert money from papers into their own pockets; Craigslist
sucks money out of the system entirely. "They have become nothing less
than a force to be reckoned with," says Tim Fagan, president of
Apartments.com, a site owned by six major newspaper companies.

Google and MSN are going free. Craigslist is opting to charge in more markets. And deer-in-headlights Monster … well, who the hell really or cares?

It’s getting curiouser and curiouser, Alice.