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Over the recent weeks, we have received a number of inquiries about posting car classified listings on iSeeCars. Since iSeeCars is a search engine, it only includes the car listings that are posted on other sites (similar to Google only crawling the content from other sites). For the time being, the way to have your listings included in the iSeeCars search engine is to post your car listings to such free classifieds sites as http://www.craigslist.com or http://www.Googlebase.com.

We will be including more free websites where you can post in the near future. Also, we are in the process of developing an easy way for you to create your listing on our site and have it automatically posted to a number of free classifieds sites. Stay tuned. Keep the feedbacks and inquiries coming. Much appreciate all of them. You can contact us at feedback@iseecars.com

iSeeCars, in providing you the capability to search millions of used cars listings from more than 1000 different websites, gives you the visibility of seeing most if not all of the cars for sale within a given city in which you’d be interested in buying a car. With this visibility into so many listings, you probably are wondering how you’d wade or navigate through so many listings to find the car deal you’re looking for. Well, iSeeCars was developed with exactly that in mind.

Here’s the 5 Steps to Finding a Used Car Deal Using iSeeCars:

1. Search for the car(s) you’re interested in finding

Select the car you’re looking for by filling in the search form the car make, model, price range and other information as desired and clicking on “Search”

2. Browse through the listings and look for “potential deals”

After clicking on “search,” you’ll then see a list of cars for sale displayed in default sort order of “Potential Deals” where for example, the 1st car listing is potentially a better deal than the ones following it, and the 2nd car listing is potentially a better deal than the ones after it. (This is the default sort order because our assumption is that consumers like to look for deals. The “Potential Deals” ranking is calculated based on comparing the asking price of the car with market price from sources like Edmunds and determining the condition of the car based on what the seller says in the listing description. This is automatically calculated and determined by iSeeCars, please validate all information before making a decision.)

3. For each car that catches your eye, determine if the car is really a deal

As you browse through the car listings, there are several tools you can use to further determine if the car is a deal from your perspective based on what you’re looking for.

• “Keywords Detected” - automatically displays key information iSeeCars detects in the listing such as whether the seller is moving in which case, the seller may be more amenable to negotiating, whether the car has a clean history, whether it is still under warranty, and so forth.

• “Listing Insight” - automatically analyzes and formats the car listing description in an insightful and structured way for you to get a quick overview of the car condition to see if it’s what you’re looking for

• “KBB Value” - if you see a car you like, click on this to see how the asking price compares with the market value KBB calculates (I usually compare the asking price to the “private” value or “trade-in” value in KBB)

• “Edmunds Value” - Edmunds also calculates a market value for used cars. Use this to validate the value you’re getting from KBB and as a comparison with the asking price

• “Carfax” -Validate that the car has a clean car history and it matches up with what the seller says

Of course, you’ll need to confirm the key information when you speak with the seller and when you actually see and test- drive the car. iSeeCars attempts to provide the guidance and analysis for you to decide on whether it would be worthwhile contacting the seller and finding out more about the car.

4. Compare the car you like with similar cars to see if there’s a better deal

If you find a car listing you like, you might be curious as to whether there are similar cars you ought to consider that have the same car make, model, year, and within a similar mileage range. The “Compare Prices with Similar Cars” tool compares the car you’re looking at with similar cars for sale and shows you how the car’s price compares with the prices of the similar cars. For example, if you notice that the lowest price of the similar cars is $10K but the car you’re eyeing is $13K, perhaps you might want to take a look at the similar cars to see if there’s a better, lower price deal. To see the similar cars, click on “Compare Prices with Similar Cars”

5. Click to see the full details of the car listing directly on the site where the listing was posted

In browsing through the car listings and you find a car listing that catches your eye, click to see the full listing description direct from the website where the car listing was posted

Start searching…Search for used car deals on iSeeCars

We’re excited to announce the launch of 3 additional metro areas in which you can search for cars for sale. You can now search used cars in the Seattle, Atlanta, and San Francisco (Bay Area) areas, adding to the 3 major metro city areas we already cover: Boston, New York and Philadelphia. iSeeCars now searches close to a million listings across more than 1000 websites including Craigslist, Cars.com, Google, Ebay and a host of other classified, dealership, and newspaper websites. Check it out and let us know what you think. Thanks.

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We’re excited to announce the launch of iSeeCars for Los Angeles.  You can now search for cars for sale or used car classifieds across a number of websites with listings in the LA area.   We’ll be adding other cities on an on-going basis so check back with us if the city you’re interested in is not yet available.

As always, we welcome any feedback and suggestions you may have to make the search service even better.

iSeeCars Team

In the first blog post, we described that iSeeCars is a search engine for cars for sale or used car classified listings and talked a little bit about why it offers a unique value proposition. In this post, we’d like to elaborate upon some of the unique differentiation.

• iSeeCars searches thousands of car websites across the Internet all at once so you don’t have to (and we’re continually crawling new ones)
• The car listings results are automatically sorted by “deal potential” according to the extent a certain car might be a potential deal based on a variety of factors such as market price comparison and what we can gather from the listing description regarding things like whether it has a warranty, # of owners the car has had, is it a non-smoker’s car, car history, and other factors (While being able to search and see a lot of listings is great, sometimes too many search results may be overwhelming so we thought it would also be helpful to rank the search results similar to the idea of Google ranking)
• Users can get a quick snapshot summary of a car listing using “Listing Insight” which summarizes in a structured format the key information found in the listing description such as warranty, car history, ownership, etc (the idea was save users time by not having to drill down into the listing description for every listing)
• Users can compare the car listings and sort/filter by key features like moving sale, etc (going under the assumption users like to shop for deals, we created a special filter to look for car listings where sellers are moving)
• Users can also compare prices across similar cars for each listing so you can see if there is a better deal (so if you’re looking at a 2006 Honda Accord EX listing with 20K miles and asking price of $18K, you probably would also be curious to know if there are other cars with same make, model, year and similar mileage and how much they’re going for so you can see if there’s a better deal from another seller)
• As you can see, iSeeCars does a lot of the work for you so you don’t have to. what’s even better is that it’s free to use.

These are some of the examples. We have other ideas that we look to implement to help users even more in their search for a car.

Give iSeeCars a try next time you’re searching for a car

We’re excited to announce that you can now use iSeeCars to search for cars for sale in 2 new cities: Philadelphia and New York areas. You can search over 145k listings of used cars in the Philadelphia area and close to 160k listings of used cars in the New York area. The classified listings come from more than 400 different car websites. New listings from additional car websites are added continually. Check it out.

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When 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.