Google Is A Scraper Site, Says National Association Of Realtors

May 12, 2009 at 2:09pm ET by Matt McGee

With support from the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), the Indianapolis Metropolitan Board of REALTORS® (MIBOR) has forced some of its members to stop allowing certain MLS listings to be crawled and indexed by Google because Google (and other search engines) is considered a "scraper" site. This is the latest episode in a long-running battle over who controls home listings that are part of the Multiple Listing Service, or MLS. Some of the affected real estate professionals plan to ask the NAR to change its opinion on search engines at its national convention this week. Paula Hen [...]

Filed in: Features: General, Google: Critics, Google: Web Search, Legal: Crawling & Indexing, Top News, Yahoo: Real Estate

Yahoo Creates Home Values Meta Search

May 25, 2007 at 10:43am ET by Greg Sterling

Zestimates from Zillow have proven to be a tremendous hit with the public, although they've been criticized for being too high or too low in some cases. Now Yahoo has taken Zillow's home valuation data (they've had a partnership for several months) and combined it with similar data from other providers, eppraisal.com and reply.com, in a new and improved Home Values section of Yahoo Real Estate. Here's a provided example in Seattle, with valuations in the upper right. And here's the Yahoo Local & Maps blog post that explains the new functionality in further detail. [...]

Filed in: Search Engines: Real Estate, Yahoo: Real Estate

Yahoo Debuts U.S. Schools Search Tool

Jan 19, 2007 at 1:02pm ET by Chris Sherman

Yahoo Real Estate has introduced a new Schools Search service that lets you search for U.S. schools by city and state or zip code. Results are plotted on a map, and you can sort by school district, distance from a specific location, grade level, or school type (public, private, charter). You can also plot nearby grocery stores, parks, restaurants and gas stations on the map. Yahoo built the service in partnership with not-for-profit GreatSchools.net. Detail pages for each school include facts such as enrollment numbers, student to teacher ratio, test score data and graphs and so on. Also in [...]

Filed in: Yahoo: Real Estate

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