MakeUseOf.com just wrote an article comparing several craigslist search sites.  Naturally SearchTempest was first on the list.  What struck me though were the cases made for some of the other sites.  Crazedlist – has some of the features of SearchTempest, but ‘provides instructions that will help you’ get around blocks imposed by craigslist.  That’s great, except that their instructions only work for Firefox, and besides, with SearchTempest things just work – no fiddling with your browser required.  Doesn’t sound like much of a selling point! Craigzoom and Search All Craigs – these sites are both essentially front ends on top of Google custom searches.  And that’s a good idea.  In fact, SearchTempest also lets you tap into the power of Google.  Just click the ‘All Cities Together’ tab on the results page.  Only with SearchTempest, you still have access to all your advanced search options – particularly the ability to search by distance from your zip code, or pick and choose which cities to search.  (Or, of course, search everywhere, if that’s what you want!) You can’t be everything to everyone, but we do try!