Voice input search is coming to online search, and by extension, to real estate search.
Remember the Yellow Pages mantra, “Let your fingers do the walking” ? Well, consumers will let their voices do the walking with voice enabled search. Rather than typing into the Google or Yahoo box, folks searching for a home, or anything […]
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The Future of Real Estate Search: Voice Input Search
Published by May 13th, 2008 in Real estate search. 4 CommentsWill Real Estate Go to the Dogs? or The Case for a Metasearch Engine
Published by April 14th, 2008 in Real estate search and Technology. 14 CommentsRealogy just dropped 500,000 of its real estate listings on Trulia. (They will also be feeding their house listings to Zillow, AOL, Google Base, Frontdoor and other real estate portals). Windemere and Prudential have also jumped on the online syndication bandwagon to make their massive databases of home listings available to consumers. […]
Trulia Using Google Street View to Enhance Real Estate Search
Published by April 9th, 2008 in Real Estate Technology, Real estate search and Trulia. 6 CommentsTrulia has added Google Street View to help provide a better viewing experience to its users. Now, visitors to Trulia can “virtually” walk the neighborhood and get a sense of parking, views, neighboring homes, stores and other neighborhood amenities, as well as all the unzillowables that are not found in raw data, like […]
Real Estate Search Engine DotHomes Adds Foreclosures
Published by March 17th, 2008 in Real Estate News and Real estate search. 4 CommentsToday, I had the pleasure of speaking with DotHomes.com founder, Douglas de Jager, a smart chap from the UK who launched the Google-like real estate search engine in the U.S. on January 28, 2008. It has been in the search game since May 2006, when it was known as Extate (with UK and South Africa […]
Press Release: Ex-Googlers Launch rentBits.com- Vertical Search for Rentals
Published by March 12th, 2008 in Press Release, Real estate search and rental. 7 Comments
March 12, 2008
Denver, CO - rentBits.com today announced the beta launch of its
rental search engine, offering renters one place to find available
rental homes, condos and apartments.
rentBits’ helps users make sense of the millions of bits of rental
housing data and information that reside on the web. Using advanced
search technology, rentBits crawls the web to provide […]
Zillow’s Smart Search Ain’t So
Published by December 21st, 2007 in Real Estate Technology, Real estate search and zillow.com. 13 CommentsZillow (Big Z*) just announced its new Smart Search feature. Here’s our review: It ain’t. It’s as fuzzy as most of the real estate search engines out there.
According to Dave Beitel, Zillow’s chief technology officer,
Smart Search sets a new standard for online real estate search and solves one of the biggest challenges […]
REBNY Launches Its Residential NYC Search Website
Published by September 29th, 2007 in Real Estate News and Real estate search. 3 CommentsThe Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), the NYC equivalent of an MLS, has launched the Trulia built search engine/portal Residential NYC.com. Consumers can now freely search exclusive sale listings of REBNY members, without having to get inky fingers from checking The New York Times classifieds or visiting each broker’s website — and non-REBNY […]
Heavy Traffic: Trulia Top Referrer to Major Real Estate Firms
Published by September 20th, 2007 in Hot News, Real Estate Marketing, Real estate, Real estate search, Sellsius Real Estate Blog and Trulia. 4 Comments
According to its blog (citing traffic bean counter, Hitwise), Trulia was one of the top 3 websites referring traffic to 12 major residential real estate broker firms nationwide last month (August 18- September 15, 2007) . The others in the top 3– some guys named Google and Yahoo!
According to the post, the Trulians outpaced fellow […]
