The Craigslist Anomaly

It's pretty incredible:

Craigslist is a fascinating anomaly in the world of large-scale web sites. Take a look at these numbers, as published by Craigslist with October 2006 data from Yahoo! and Alexa:

Rank	Employees	Company
(page views)
1	10,000	Yahoo!
2	90,000	TimeWarner
3	10,000	Google
4	70,000	Microsoft
5	50,000	News Corp
6	12,000	eBay
7	23	craigslist
8	25,000	BBC
9	130,000	Disney
10	12,000	Amazon

That’s not a typo for the number of employees at craigslist—while the other top-10 sites have more than 10,000 employees (most of them far more), craigslist has 23.

The USA Today gives the soft kiss to the organization in a recent article.