{"id":10364,"date":"2009-11-20T16:27:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T23:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2009-11-20T16:27:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T23:27:43","slug":"google-places-is-a-national-real-estate-search-engine-not-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/10364\/google-places-is-a-national-real-estate-search-engine-not-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"“Google Places” is a “National Real Estate Search Engine”? Not so much."},"content":{"rendered":"

…at least not yet.<\/p>\n

On Sept 24th when the Google Blog announcement of Google Places<\/a> was posted, there was no mention of Place Pages for Real Estate:<\/p>\n

“A Place Page is a webpage for every place in the world, organizing all the relevant information about it. By every place, we really mean *every* place \u2014 there are Place Pages for businesses, points of interest, transit stations, neighborhoods, landmarks and cities all over the world.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice they didn’t say “addresses” or “real estate listings”, but today over on SearchEngineLand,\u00a0 there is a post by Matt Mcgee titled Google Builds out a National Real Estate Search Engine<\/a> which features a “Real Estate Listing Place Page”, and several other outlets have picked up on it.<\/p>\n

The Place Page that Matt uses as an example<\/a> does indeed show that there are now Place Pages for listings that Google knows about via Google Base.<\/p>\n

A closer look reveals that, at least at this point, this isn’t very different from what Google has done up to now.<\/p>\n

The content on the example that Matt from SearchEngineLand used consists of photos from PrudentialProperties.com and redundant basic information from that site and two others.<\/p>\n

As Real Estate listing pages go, its a hodgepodge with little added value, such as an AVM, or local market info, that you would find on a good IDX site for the same listing<\/a>. Even Realtor.com’s basic listing page is better. If you want that detailed information Google, as it always has, provides the links back to the original real estate sites.<\/p>\n

That makes this an extension of Google organic results, nothing more.<\/p>\n

As a stand-alone listing detail page as opposed to the beefed-up search result page that it is, this “Real Estate Listing Place Page” is pretty half-assed by Google’s standards, which may be why Place Pages for real estate are currently hard to find.<\/p>\n

I tried entering the address from Matt’s example in Google Maps, without putting the \/realestate after the address, and was not offered the “more info” link that leads to the Place Page, even though we know it exists.<\/p>\n

Then I tried entering the address on my new Droid (yes it Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…at least not yet. On Sept 24th when the Google Blog announcement of Google Places was posted, there was no mention of Place Pages for Real Estate: “A Place Page is a webpage for every place in the world, organizing all the relevant information about it. 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