My note to her: “Trulia and Zillow both present inactive listings as though they were active to fool the public into thinking that they have more inventory than the agents they exploit for advertising money, even though their listings come straight from the MLS systems. Mere real estate brokers would be fined out of business […]
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This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link). There is a fuller review of this new technology here. With its new iPhone application, Trulia.com is taking on-line real estate search to the streets So who is winning the Realty.bot race, Trulia.com or Zillow.com? Your guess is as good as anyone’s, […]
Who’s winning the Realty.bot race, Trulia or Zillow? There is a constant flurry of new press releases from the two companies, but their boastful claims often sound like a pair of garrulous amputees agreeing with each other that the two-legged world is off its rocker: “Five million visitors! Ha-ha!” “A hundred thousand new listings! So […]
I think that there may have been a time, in the blue-sky days of gray-skyed Seattle, when people with two-digit badge numbers at Zillow.com actually thought they might be able to disintermediate Realtors — much as Expedia.com had disintermediated travel agents. No one at Zillow will admit to this, but I suspect that a notion […]
I’m still digging out from Unchained, so this is not as timely as it might have been. First, I think we might have gotten distracted by whatever cozy arrangement does or does not exist between Trulia.com and Number 1 Agent. Second, I think Trulia’s recent announcement that agents can “brand” their own listings is a […]
Using Eric Bramlett’s green ribbon and a little bit of PHP, I have built a small widget to keep track of the accumulating body of weblog posts on Trulia.com policy of adding the “nofollow” tag to links back to its listing partners. Shown below is an image of the widget; you can see the real […]
Galen Ward’s post on Trulia.com’s policy of adding “nofollow” tags to links back to its own listings partners has elicited quite a bit of controversy. The original post itself excited a great deal of commentary, and this is explored in encyclopedic detail in a fascinating post by Union Street Media’s Gahlord Dewald. Trulia.com’s Rudy Bachraty […]
First the news on horseback. We’ll come back and gloss it again, but you’re likely to learn more by listening to the podcast linked below with Zillow.com’s David Gibbons. The news, from Zillow’s press release: Real estate Web site Zillow.com today announced a major expansion and upgrade to its database of nearly all homes in […]
The details are here. This was to have been news tomorrow, but Trulia broke its own embargo. Unlike the last round of upgrades, this release is all about milking cash from Realtors in the best Realtor.com tradition. Perfectly understandable as a means of making money, but hardly earth-shaking. I would have more readily welcomed actual […]
With its Z6 software release, which goes live tonight, Zillow.com adds a neighborhood level of user conversations, similar to Trulia.com’s Trulia Voices feature released in May of this year. From Zillow’s press release: Real estate Web site Zillow.com today added a number of new community features, opening up the site even further to user contributions. […]
So says BlogForward in a strange little post. That puts the San Francisco-based Realty.bot’s total VC investment at $18 million, so far. Further notice: TruliaBlog, TechCrunch, John Cook’s Venture Blog. The BlogForward post is actually a splog of this Venture Beat article, a tendentious mess of unquestioned, uncited misinformation (e.g., “Zillow and Trulia don’t divulge […]
This is me last month, at the time of the Zillow.com’s most-recent software release: In the world of Trulia.com — and other listings.bots focused on evanescent listings — users come and go. On the idealized Planet Zillow, users come and stay. Home buying is at most an 18-month effort undertaken every seven to ten years, […]
Come with me to the newly-reconfigured Trulia.com, freshly emerged from beta status. Let’s search for an ideal house. The criteria we can use are limited — location, type of structure, price range, bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage — but we can still scare up some results. Plus which, if you really know what you want — […]
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Linked below is a podcast interview I conducted with Heather Mirjahangir Fernandez, Trulia.com’s Director of Marketing. Heather takes us through all of Trulia’s new functionality. At the end of the recording, I raise the idea that Heather might be getting a lot of email about the upgrade, so it seems appropriate to share her email […]
Cathy had lunch today with a friend and ex-colleague. Cathy was talking about Zillow.com as a Web 2.0 phenomenon, and her friend was having trouble wrapping her mind around the idea of Web 2.0. I sent her mail when I heard about this, summarizing and quoting from the seminal Tim O’Reilly article: In an elevator […]