| Website | vast.com |
| Blog | vast.com/partner/... |
| Category | Web |
| Employees |
| Series A, 4/05 Clearstone Venture Partners Leapfrog Ventures |
Vast, a company in development since 2000, is a classified ad aggregator and search engine. What is special about this company is that it digs deep into the web to give its users access to the very end of the product long tail. With over 25 million classified listings through 70,000 sites crawled, Vast’s goal is to find any ad relevant to your search terms. Vast does not manually insert listings, source sites or filter their data, thus the vast team was forced into creating a filtering system to get rid of the 70% spam/duplicate ads their engine found. The plus side to having a completely automated system is that sites can be indexed faster and the smaller sites can be found by machine and not human eyes. Still the best way to get an add on Vast is to post it to a larger classifieds site such as Craigslist, eBay, CarsDirect, or LiveDeal.Vast allows third parties to use its large index through an API. Terms are very relaxed, allowing anything to be done with the index that is not illegal. Direct competitors include Edgeio and oodle with Simply Hired, Indeed, Google Base, kijiji and Craigslist overlapping with Vast in different areas.
In January 2008, Vast acquired Adaptive Real Estate Services (ARES), a company which hosts websites for real estate agents and brokers.
| Website | vast.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Launch Date | April 1, 2005 |
| Tags | classifieds |
Hitting the very end of the long tail, Vast can even index baby monkeys for sale. Vast covers these classifieds categories: Cars, real estate, rentals, vacation rentals, jobs, merchandise, tickets, pets, horses and services.
