Oodle

Oodle, Inc.

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Type of business	Division of QVC
Type of site	classifieds
Available in	English
Founded	2004
Headquarters	San Mateo, California, United States
Founder(s)	Craig Donato Scott Kister Faith Sedlin
Website	www.oodle.com
Alexa rank	7,663 (April 2014[update])
Launched	2005
Current status	active

Oodle, Inc. is an online marketplace based out of San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2004 by ex-Excite executives Craig Donato, Scott Kister and Faith Sedlin.

Oodle is currently the largest classifieds aggregator, and aggregates listings from sites like eBay, ForRent.com, BoatTrader.com, as well as local listings from local newspapers and websites.

Oodle strongly encourages posters to include a Facebook profile with listings, believing that users will prefer the transparency of dealing with someone with a name and face attributed to their listing.

Oodle also powers other companies' classifieds websites, from the online classifieds for traditional newspapers including The Sun,The Washington Post Express,New York Post to other large websites like AOL, Lycos, Local.com,Military.com, to non-traditional classifieds hosting sites like Wal-Mart. Oodle searches vertically in the classifieds categories of cars, real estate, renting, jobs, personals, merchandise, tickets, pets and services.

Oodle aggregates listings from national and local sources, covering over 1000 regions in the United States, UK, Canada, Ireland, and India

On March 6, 2009, Facebook launched a now defunct version of its Marketplace application powered by Oodle. In November 2010 Oodle acquired Grouply, a platform for building custom social networking groups. The QVC home shopping company purchased Oodle in 2012.In May 2015, the site was purchased from QVC by Oodle Holdings.