There’s a proliferation of Vertical Real Estate Search Engines (Spiders) that are being introduced to consumers. Two of latest spiders to launch in New York are Trulia and Realestateadvisor. They join Natefind, Streeteasy, Propsmart, PropertyRover (Read REAL DEAL article), Oodle and the now defunct Cribseek (Read RainCity article). With all these choices, it will be interesting to see which one the public will embrace.
For a great comparison of all the new search technologies, please visit Rain City Guide.
What’s a spider? A spider crawls the web for general content and displays the information on a search engine results page based on your search criteria, like Google. This generation of spiders is doing a Vertical Search which attempts to organize data for a specified category, i.e. Real Estate. It seems inevitable that there will soon be a Real Estate Search Engine (Spider) to search all the other spiders, a la Dogpile.
We believe Real Estate is more than just searching listings. It’s also about providing professional services to consumers. Sellsius will soon launch our Nationwide Real Estate Community where consumers, agents, brokers and other professionals can find each other and discuss relevant real estate related issues. We are a community that embraces honest dialogue between neighbors. Our vision is to grow organically and to encourage our members to contribute user generated content that will help other Sellsius members with their particular real estate needs. By the way, Sellsius members will have the ability to post unlimited listings for residential and commercial property including sales and rentals, businesses for sale, getaways, classifieds including job, roommate and wanted ads and detailed professional profiles.
Sellsius is a pro consumer and pro industry community that supports any new product or service that helps consumers and real estate professionals be more efficient.
Kudos to Jonathan Miller from Matrix who we believe broke the story about the NYC launch of Trulia first last night
Great article… You’ve found a few more I’m going to have to add to my list!
thanks dustin!
keep up the good work at Rain City!
we support you.
-rdb & jf
very interesting. I looked at some of these sites and they all look the same to me–basically a copy of google. But what about the FSBOS. Personally I prefer to post myself on craigslist, newsday or the post. As an owner how do i get spidered? I guess I dont; and that’s a shame for consumers who want to get a complete picture of what’s out there.