How to do a national search on Craig's List

[Brad Hemingson CLC #18437]

I'm no computer wizard and I may be telling everyone here something they already know but I just learned a cool trick for searching all of Craig's List in one Google search.

1) Go to "Advanced search"
2) Type in what you're looking for i.e. 1955 Cadillac
3) In the line "This exact word or phrase" type: 1955 Cadillac
4) In the line "none of these words" type: directory
5) In the lower section look for the line "site or domain" type: craigslist.org
6) Hit Enter

[Dan LeBlanc]

Awesome tip. I've been using autotempest.com to search for cars and searchtempest.com for everything else. I'll have to give this a whirl instead.

[C.R. Patton II]

Hello Brad

I appreciate your unselfishness to share this conduit. Thank you very much.

[Richardonly]

Hi Brad, 

Thank you very much.  Certainly will help me and so many others.

Richard

[Classic]

Here's another way:

In the Google search box, type:  site:craigslist.org 1955 Cadillac

[Jay Friedman]

Brad,

Great find.  However, while you describe yourself "as no computer wizard" I, on the other hand, am a computer dunce.  Wanting to use your tip to get to a Craiglist national search page, I went to www.craiglist.org and it went as it always does to the local craiglist web page, in my case the Atlanta GA area.  I looked everywhere on the page but could not see "advanced search".  Where is this located on the page when you get on to craiglist?  Thanks, Jay

[Jay Friedman]

I now see it's a google search.  Told you all I was a computer dunce.

[Brad Hemingson CLC #18437]

I now see it's a google search.  Told you all I was a computer dunce.

I got my IT guy at work to help. I got tired of going city by city. Also, it seems to find the ads from areas on the edges of big urban areas that don't always show up the other way. Craigslist apparently deliberately didn't add the "search all of CL" function as they wanted to be a "local" classified service.

[gary griffin]

It is easy to do with Google.  Type in "allcraigslist "and several options will come up. Some are confusing and I use the "adunter" site.  I regularly look for 1942 Cadillac and 1940 LaSalle parts and information.

[blazin]

you can use this website as well
http://www.adhuntr.com/

[Renato]

I found my Fleetwood with searchtempest