We’ve listened to your requests, demands, and comments, and we know that it’s been a long time coming — We have finally put up an advanced search functionality at ClassifiedsPH for your convenience! The advanced search basically lets you search by keywords, category, subcategory, location, and/or date posted.

To use the advanced  search functionality, just click on the “Advanced Search” link below the Search button on the top bar, as shown here:

And here’s a peek at how the advanced search form looks like:

We’ve endeavored to make the form as easy to use as possible but if you ever need any assistance, feel free to contact us via our ClassifiedsPH contact form.

Till next time!

Posted: March 25th, 2009 under ClassifiedsPH Development.
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Yep you’re reading this right! The biggest pot in all of Philippine Lotto history has been taken by two people. One claims that she chose a passing car’s plate number to complete her combination. She’s now P173 million richer than she was last week and plans to spend this money on a house and lot and charities, and leave the rest in her savings.

This is one girl who doesn’t have to work a single day again… provided she knows how to handle her money. Congratulations! Now excuse me while I sulk just a bit more before I come to terms with the reality that I didn’t win. Hahaha

Posted: February 24th, 2009 under Buzz in the Philippines.
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If you have probably observed, we’ve improved the site’s loading time by moving to a more powerful and faster server. You should be able to browse through the listings much quicker.

We’ve also increased the number of characters you can put in your description, since we noticed a lot of ads are pretty long.

Finally, we’ve added this nifty feature that allows you to immediately view the ads you’ve posted as soon as you hit the “Post this Ad” button on the post ad form.

More improvements to come soon!

Posted: December 20th, 2008 under ClassifiedsPH Development.
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And just in time for the holidays, too! Prizes are probably going to be the same as the first TAWAD NA promo, since today’s prize is a Compaq Presario (sounds familiar, fellow Tawad na veterans?). As for the mechanics, a few things have changed. For one thing, bidding for one prize lasts for one whole week - a good idea for Globe since they get more texts for less prizes, and I believe it’s also a good thing for us texters because the playing field is fairer (ie. The winning tawad will probably be on higher values and one person will have a harder time texting all tawad combinations). Apart from that, you get an upgraded prize if you bid X times.

Am I going to join again this time around? You can bet your load, haha! As long as Globe has something juicy to offer as a prize, then I’m probably going to bite. How about you guys?

Posted: October 29th, 2008 under Buzz in the Philippines.
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Have you been parking in malls lately? Have you noticed the different high-tech gadgets they’ve been putting in? G4 Makati parking lots have the parking counter for every floor and the Link parking lot (the one near Anson Makati) has that camera that takes a picture of your plate number. Both are very useful, but nobody can top Mall of Asia’s latest gadget - the car vacancy sensors!

If you’ve ever parked in a mall carpark, and during peak hours at that, you’ve probably cursed a word or two, scouring through all the lots, and trying to look for an available slot. Sometimes, you encounter those parking oasis slots - it looks like a vacant slot from afar, then when you get near you realize that it’s really not. And the frustrating search continues on.

MOA has almost completely obliterated this problem. Each slot has a light above - red for occupied, green for vacant. So when you just get into that floor, you can immediately rush to the nearest green light you see! The sensor is simple - as long as an object is standing above this detector (sort of looks like a small smoke detector), the light turns red. My friends and I tried standing below these detectors, and the lights turned red.

Now if only every carpark adopted this handy gadget.

Posted: October 26th, 2008 under Buzz in the Philippines.
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It really is time to fly with Cebu Pacific’s Manila to Osaka promo! It’s P1,999/flight but after all the taxes, you’ll end up spending around P15,000 for a round-trip flight. Still pretty cheap considering you’re going to JAPAN <drools>!

Of course, don’t forget to consider your food and lodging expenses and some extra moolah to buy yourself some unique trinkets, interesting outfits, a couple of Sanrio’s, and some steals at the 100 yen shop.

For lodging, you might want to try sleeping at a capsule hotel, which will cost about P1500 a night. Not very cheap for a coffin-sized room! I checked out Yahoo Travel and there are P1500 a night hotel rooms out there too.

You’d probably spend around P1,200 to P3,000 a day for food. Hit the takoyaki stands, the street-side ramen houses, the Izakaya’s, and the convenience stores (instant ramen, anyone?) and you’ll save a lot on grubs. Of course, since you’re already in Japan, I’d suggest you spend a bit on a night at a sushi bar.
Happy travels to everyone who’s planning their trip as I type! I’m certainly green with envy

Posted: September 18th, 2008 under Buzz in the Philippines.
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Just recently, PLDT launched this novel concept called “Ask PLDT”, where users can call and ask anything from the latest showbiz scoop to a good recipe for the day just by dialing 101-811. When I got hold of the flyer, the first thing that popped in my head is “Ask Jeeves Telephone Version”. Which got me thinking - can I possibly call and ask a hilarious quesiton like “Do you think I’ll find my soulmate sometime soon?” or something as trivial as “What goes better with a pair of dark blue jeans? Mustard or red?”? So call I did.

Apparently, though, my excitement was doused when I realized that all the questions and answers were already programmed into the phone and there weren’t any real call center agents handling it. Of course, this made total sense on their end because PLDT successfully eliminates prank callers (one of which could have potentially been me haha) and increase their cost efficiency. It takes out a lot of the fun in it though.

Objectively speaking, minus my sudden prank-calling tendency, the facility is somewhat useful and fun. You can get the latest news articles, the weather forecast, currently showing movies, the day’s horoscope, etc. I say somewhat because:

1. You can get all these info on the net anyway.
2. Some of the questions and answers are half-baked. For instance, you get the list of movies showing today but you don’t know the time schedules for a particular cinema. Or you can get a suggested menu for the day, but not the recipe per se (the programmed voice just tells you you could cook pork binagoongan but if you haven’t cooked that dish before, then you still need to do number 1 above).
3. You can also get some of these info on TV, served to you in a more entertaining way.

So, most likely, this service will be helpful to people with no access to the net (or no knowledge on surfing) and no access to a boob tube. Probably someone on the road, without a 3G phone. And this will just be a prerequisite to other things you need to do. Ex. You find out the the movies showing through Ask PLDT, now you have to actually go to a nearby cinema to see what the available time slots are (or use a certain SMS service).

Before I forget, you only have 30 free questions per month so don’t go on a question and answer spree.

One last suggestion I would give to make this service more user-friendly is to provide users with an accurate card that lists
the codes for each question. (ex. to get the weather forecast, press 1 then 2). That way, you don’t have to listen to the programmed voice over and over again, and use up all your time.

My bottomline is: Try the service out. You have some free question credits anyway.

Posted: September 10th, 2008 under Buzz in the Philippines.
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We introduce to you… <drum roll please>… keyword tags for your ad!

What’s it for? It will help improve the visibility of your ad. The rule is to place the most essential words to describe your ad - words that users will most likely search for. For instance, if you’re posting an ad on a condo for rent in Makati, it would make sense to place as your keywords the street where your condo unit is located in, if it’s fully furnished or not, etc.

Because of this new addition, we’ve revamped the whole post ad form to mostly fit everything in one look.

Hope this new feature benefits you all!

Posted: August 28th, 2008 under ClassifiedsPH Development.
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Philippine online shopping as we know today could not have been possible without Multiply. Thousands of Filipinos post photos of tops, jewelries, car parts, health products, etc. daily, and these posts reach hundreds of Filipino multiply users. It doesn’t come as a shock, therefore, that 39% of Multiply traffic comes from the Philippines. Of the 9 million registered users, a whopping 2.2 million are Filipinos, outnumbering the more largely populated countries like the US.

What made Multiply click, amongst 450 other social networking sites? I can only speculate. Being a Multiply user myself, I believe that the media-centric structure of Multiply makes it the easiest way to organize photos, and we know how much we Filipinos love kodakan. For sellers, the structure is also an easy way to catalog their items.

The budding entrepreneurial spirit of the Filipinos and our camera-hungry culture are probably the two major driving factors that have contributed to the incredible traffic Multiply is enjoying from us.

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20080622-144061/Filipinos-are-prolific-go-and-Multiply

Posted: July 6th, 2008 under Computers / Internet, Buzz in the Philippines.
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We recently added a very important field to our ad post form: location. We’ve pretty much populated the location field with all the major cities in the Philippines, grouped by region. We’ve also added the option to specify that the ad’s location is outside the Philippines. In the very near future, we will allow you to filter ads based on the location, something that will be especially important for real estate ads.

Posted: June 9th, 2008 under ClassifiedsPH Development.
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