Comments on: Google made a big real estate move today

By: Minnesota Real Estate News

Minnesota Real Estate News — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:20:38 +0000

Hi Brian, Thanks for the update. It will be interesting to see if these developments also happen in the UK. I checked a number of listings for various cities. Naturally, I could not check them all, but it does not appear that any of the listings are coming up within Google.

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[...] director of local markets for Google, will be on stage with Brad Inman to talk about recent moves by the search giant. I don’t expect him to spill the beans on strategy, but I will be listening [...]

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Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:36:10 +0000

[...] couple weeks ago we noted the company’s move to include a real estate overlay on Google Maps, which put listings [...]

By: Mylos

Mylos — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:56:21 +0000

I just posted 300 listings of Real Estate in Montenegro to test traffic from google maps. All of u watch this from USA perspective but there are real estate markets in every country and Google will cover them all. Local listings will have global exposure this way I think.

By: Jim Duncan

Jim Duncan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:47:32 +0000

Without the best data, the MLS’ offer of compensation & cooperation will be moot.

Realtors will be following consumers to Google to search for homes, and then offer of compensation & cooperation will be irrelevant.

Underestimating Google is a stupid, short sighted and fatal mistake.

Google have bought a lot of companies, but I haven’t yet found a list showing the industries they have re-shaped or made obsolete. Why would real estate be any different?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google

By: Peter Toner

Peter Toner — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:32:19 +0000

Hey, not even a licensed real estate agents IDX feed has all the listing either. Here is San Diego at least 8% of the listings are “missing” – so much for transparency!

Read about the #’s here:

http://webrealestatetools.com/real-estate-tools/missing-listings-in-an-idx-home-search

Peter Toner

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By: Portland Real Estate

Portland Real Estate — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:30:03 +0000

I dont think that they have all of the listings, and I hope that they make that disclaimer somewhere. Unless they make agreements with the MLSes, there is just no way that they are going to have all of the right information. Unless of course they are mining some other IDX site and just providing a link to some brokers website.

-Tyler