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Oodle Offers Classifieds, Home and Job Searches

Crain's New York Business reports that a search engine called Oodle.com has launched a beta test. Oodle starts with local search tools for major cities like Chicago and New York. Oodle allows users to search regional classifieds, home listings and job listings from newspapers and web databases like Craiglist.

The company was started in 2004 by Oodle Chief Executive Craig Donato, who had become frustrated with searching multiple sites for products and hoping he'd reach the seller before the listing expired. Mr. Donato told NewYorkBusiness.com that oodle.com users can sign up for specific job or product alerts that are delivered the moment they are listed on Craigslist.org and other local sources.