Land Grab: Google Expands Real Estate Listings

Jul 6, 2009 at 4:04am ET by Matt McGee

MLS, Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, Craigslist, fellow real estate listings sites, newspapers and other classified ad providers ... please meet your new neighbor: Google.com. Google has expanded its real estate listings and added extra search functionality for users to find property listings in Google Maps. A Google Maps search for "seattle real estate" looks mostly like it always has -- listings of real estate agents and brokers on a map. But right below the search box is a hard-to-miss invitation to search current real estate listings. And the result, at least in this Seattle example, l [...]

Filed in: Google: Maps & Local, Search Engines: Real Estate, Top News

FriendFeed Joins The Real-Time Search Race

Jul 2, 2009 at 7:28pm ET by Matt McGee

Add FriendFeed to the long and growing list of players who are trying to win the race for comprehensive and quick real-time search. FriendFeed has always had a real-time element -- the ability to track social activities almost as they happen. But the company has announced the addition of real-time search today. If you've used search.twitter.com, you'll be familiar with FriendFeed's real-time search -- the interface is almost exactly the same. One difference that FriendFeed is quick to point out is that its results update automatically and scroll down the page, without the need to click [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Buzz Search Engines, Search Engines: Word Of Mouth & Buzz Search Engines

Hunch Doing ‘Pretty Well,’ Co-Founder Says

Jul 2, 2009 at 3:11am ET by Matt McGee

Barely two weeks after its launch, Hunch is already taking stock of its progress. "How well do we think Hunch is working?," asks co-founder Chris Dixon. "Pretty well, although we still have a ways to go." Writing on the Hunch blog, Dixon explains that the decision engine is using what it calls "success rate" as its best measure of Hunch's accuracy. Hunch defines success as when a user clicks "Yes" on one of the top three results and doesn't click "no" one one of them. Dixon says the site's success rate is at 81% now, up from 70% when the private beta site was launched. Their goal is to get [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Answer Search Engines

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