Google Wants In On Real Estate: And I Don’t Mean Mountain View
Marketing Pilgrim has a good post on Google’s recent foray into the real estate listings market.
You have to hand it to GOOG for its opportunism. Marketing Pilgrim points out a recent Hitwise report stating the high volume of traffic Google Maps receives from real estate focused websites.
A coup for Google if they are somehow able to carve out a large portion of traffic from the Realtor.com and Zillows of the world.







If you want this ability on your iPhone check out the Blue Atlas Broker app. It searches the Google Real Estate Data Base on your iPhone, and displays property using GPS and a real-time Map.
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