Search All Cities on Craigslist Through Google

Posted under Hassle Free, Resources, Tools by ltruex

Craigslist can be an excellent resources for finding everything from apartments to jobs . The hassle is that you can’t search every city on Craigslist at once. It makes the job really tedious. Crazedlist.org is a site that will search multiple cities but you have disable referrers in your web browser so Craiglist won’t know you’re coming from Crazedlist and block your results.

So the best option is to use Google search. Over at Wired.com they posted an article on how to use Google’s advanced search to find what you’re looking for on all Craiglist’s city pages. Its worth a read!

To search on Craiglist through Google Search:

1) Visit Google.com and click on Advanced Search next to the search box.

2) Type in your search term (s) into the box marked Find Pages that Have All These Words

3) Type in “directory”* into the box that is marked But don’t show pages that that have…

4) Type in “Craigslist.org”* into the box that says Search within a site or domain

*When typing your search terms or domain, you don’t need the quotes.

Another option is to simply copy and paste the following into the Google.com search box with your search term in place of the words “your search term”:

your search term -directory site:craigslist.org

(Example: telecommute -directory site:craigslist.org)