The 1.6.7 upgrade added "classified ads" to Find. Maybe Lyre's conversation got to me on some fundamental level, but why is this built into the client instead of facilitated externally? I guess you can argue these are different from sponsored links in that those are supposed to be just places, whereas classified ads can be products, services, or "special attractions." Or places.
The obvious answer why it's not outsources is that Linden Lab can put it in the client, which is not only fundamentally more convenient but also discoverable in a way a third-party service isn't. It's a miniscule number of SL residents who visit the web site without a specific, rare task to perform. I suppose it's a slightly larger number who read the forums regularly.
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