Edgeio is a distributed portal that gathers classified ads from around the world and allows you to search through them from a single website. The simple design is both flexible and easy to use. Searching is as easy as choosing the appropriate category and typing in a few keywords. You can also narrow the search by location, price, or many different subcategories.
Edgeio also offers a transactional model for distributing paid content. This content can take the form of an article, an electronic book, a video, a sound clip, etc.
- Simple design is easy to use.
- Easily narrow the search by price or several subcategories.
- Add your own listings, or display listing from your own website.
- Website navigation needs work.
- Some links are broken.
- Search through job, car, housing, merchandise, and leisure listings from one website.
- Display listings from your website.
- Buy or sell content like articles, electronic books, videos, sound clips, etc.
If you are tired of going to multiple websites to find what you are looking for, Edgeio has a solution for you. This distributed portal gathers classified listings from around the world and allows you to search through them from their website. If you are looking for a book, a cd, a car, a house, or even a new job, Edgeio can help your search.
The website design is simple, so it is easy to start searching through the listings. You can choose your category from the top, type in what you are looking for, type in a location if that is relevant to your search, and then view the listings by clicking on the search button.
Once you have the listings up, you can further narrow the results by choosing a sub-category. For example, if you are looking for programming jobs in New York, you can narrow you search to an individual city like New York City, Albany, or Buffalo. You can also choose to see the listings of an individual employer, narrow it by job type, or limit it through other subcategories. If, on the other hand, you are looking for a Ford Explorer in San Francisco, you can narrow the search by price range, model, year, etc.
While it is simple to use, there are some bugs and navigational issues. Choosing a new category will run the search even if you didn't type anything in to the search box, which means a little bit of a wait for it to come up with listings. Also, going to certain areas of the website, like the blog or help center, strands you with no convenient way to get back to the main site.
You can also choose to display the classified ads on your own website. But the feature that has some people really excited is the distributed paid content model. Edgio can be used as a distributor for paid content like articles, videos, pictures or sound clips, which means if you have something to sell, Edgio can help you sell it.
