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Google and Craigslist are minimalist relics that do a job and do it well. They're too plain to be _ugly_.

MySpace is popular with the same personalizing crowd that would put stickers on their MacBooks.

I disagree that craigslist does what it does well. I think it does it extremely poorly. They've managed to get a huge critical mass though which means people will deal with the flaws because its where the content is.

And for all we know, both would be twice as popular with good design.

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