A Smarter Car Search Engine
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008When searching for a pre-owned or used car for sale on the Web:
- ever find yourself spending a lot of time going from website to website such as Craigslist, Cars.com, or dealership sites in search of the perfect car for a reasonable price?
- ever find yourself feeling a bit overwhelmed with the flood of car listings?
- ever find yourself wondering what exactly to look for in a car listing and spending too much time reading each classified that catches your eye?
Well, we had been through all that before, multiple times (we don’t like buying new cars because of the depreciating factor). We thought wouldn’t it be great if there were a Google for cars for sale that lets you search for all used cars across the Web, across all websites containing car listings like local newspaper, dealership, auction, and classified websites. If we were feeling the pain, we thought perhaps a good percentage of the 40+ million car buyers a year was as well.
So, being the PhD’s and programmers that we were, we decided to build a smarter search engine for used cars — a website that focuses first and foremost on making the search process easier and quicker for the car buyer. The “smarter” part reflects one of our goals to help users get smarter about the search by providing relevant analysis, information, and guidance. iSeeCars.com is in its first version; it only covers the Boston and New York areas at this point but we will be launching in other cities and regions soon.
This revolutionary new way to search for a used car online was conceived and developed by experienced PhD’s, coders and former entrepreneurs hailing from such renowned universities as Harvard, IIT, Peking University (the top university in China), and Princeton.
We continually make improvements and changes to the site to make it better for users. So, if you have any suggestions or thoughts, we would love to hear from you. We strive to make iSeeCars the best search engine for you, the car buyers.
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