Search Engines: Real Estate
Search is more than Google: Mastering vertical search optimization
Vertical search engines, mobile and voice trends seem to be reshaping the search landscape, says contributor Jim Yu. Create a cohesive content...
FindTheBest Launches Real Estate Search, Taking On Zillow And Trulia
FindTheBest is a structured data directory or discovery tool for comparing products, services and entities in a wide array of categories such as...
Trulia Is Making A Real Estate Search App For Google Glass
Google Glass may never become a popular consumer device, but that’s not stopping Trulia from making what should be the first real estate...
“Trulia Suggests” Search Results Without Searching
One of the very interesting things going on in search is the phenomenon of “predictive search” or personalized recommendations based...
Google’s Maslan Says The Company Not Pushing Into Real Estate
In an on-stage interview during the Inman Real Estate Connect conference this week in San Francisco Google’s Carter Maslan said that the...
Google Plans To Buy Its Way Into Real Estate
Google is making its intentions in the real estate vertical more clear. Speaking this week at Inman Real Estate Connect, an industry conference,...
Google Builds Out A National Real Estate Search Engine
While the National Association of REALTORS® is planning to launch its own national property database sometime next year, Google seems to have...
Land Grab: Google Expands Real Estate Listings
MLS, Zillow, Trulia, Realtor.com, Craigslist, fellow real estate listings sites, newspapers and other classified ad providers … please...
Google Adds Real Estate Pull-Down Filter To Maps
Google has offered the capacity to search real estate listings for a long time. For example, when entering queries such as “homes for sale...
Real Estate Engine Trulia Adds Google StreetView Imagery
When Google launched StreetView it was widely discussed (and in some cases disparaged because of the privacy implications), but few people...
Real Estate Search Engine Zillow Opens “Mortgage Marketplace”
Zillow doesn’t see itself as a real estate “vertical.” Instead, it regards itself as a media company that creates advertising...
New UK-Based Real Estate Search Engine DotHomes Launches In US
Just when you thought there were enough competitors in the real estate vertical, here comes some more. Last week a new real estate search...
Zillow Comes Out Of Beta, Improves Zestimates
Real estate may be slumping in the real world, but online the opposite is true. Zillow and Trulia in particular have been driving lots of change...
Real Estate Marketers And Their Dollars Shifting To The Internet
Realtors are an interesting segment of the small business market. Of quintessential small businesses (SMBs) and entrepreneurs, in some respects,...
Zillow Grabs Another Big Round Of Cash
As the Wall Street Journal reported this morning, real estate and local search site Zillow announced another round of investment — this...
Yahoo Creates Home Values Meta Search
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...
Real Estate Search Engine Trulia Redesigns, Adds Community
Real estate search site Trulia has redesigned, creating a new presentation on search results pages with more advanced property filters. But...