Search Tempest..from good to useless

rikitheshadow

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Anyone have a problem recently using Search Tempest. I mean its great covering larger areas for craigslist and ebay, but for some reason all i get is outdated ads. When i click to open an ad link it sends me to a craigslist deleted/outdated ad screen. Tad bit annoying...

On just ran another search on it, can only find ads in fort worth or dallas, none in houston...... i searched "arcade -xbox -xbox360 -psp -ps3" so now search tempest is even more useless...
 
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Yea, something definitely happened to them. Not sure if it was a legal thing or what, but every time they change it, it gets worse.
 
Craigslist has generally exhibited a completely unreasoning hatred for anyone aggregating their results in any way. For some reason they seem to love playing whack-a-mole with web sites that in any way bring together CL ads from multiple areas. Search Tempest is probably just falling behing CL's blocking or something.
 
There was a thread about this before. Long story short Craigslist made some changes a few months back so Search Tempest wouldn't be as effective. Search Tempest is trying to adapt to those changes but hasn't yet.
 
Just used it. Seems the same as ever. :confused:

I haven't used it in a week or so but last time I did the results were all old, like a month to 20 days at newest. Hopefully its fixed because its a great way to look if you're just trying to find all listings in a 100 mile radius or something.
 
I used to close the window with the city list and it would also close the results window. Doesn't do that lately. Can't really complain I guess, but it's still kinda annoying.
 
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