{"id":1049,"date":"2007-02-16T07:30:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2007-02-16T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T21:58:16","slug":"in-praise-of-an-insanely-great-idea-todd-carpenters-rembexcom-becomes-the-search-engine-of-the-renet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1049\/in-praise-of-an-insanely-great-idea-todd-carpenters-rembexcom-becomes-the-search-engine-of-the-renet\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of an insanely great idea: Todd Carpenter’s REMBEX.com becomes the search engine of the RE.net . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometime very soon I am going to eviscerate another Cheez Whiz Prize winner, but here is a function I would much rather undertake: Delivering praise without limits to an amazingly, outrageously great idea in real estate weblogging.<\/p>\n

Todd Carpenter runs REMBEX — Real Estate & Mortgage Blogger’s Exchange. It’s a web ring of RE.net sites, and Todd has run it as a labor of love for much longer than BloodhoundBlog has been howling. Once I realized that weblogging was about linking (Thanks, Dustin!<\/a>), Todd’s was one of the first places I slinked off to for a link.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Todd announced the creation<\/a> of REMBEX.com<\/a>, a Google Co-Op-based search engine that deploys Google’s search technology on a defined set of real estate weblogs:<\/p>\n

Basically I collected 250 active, relevant blogs, plus all of the blogs on activerain.com (a network of real estate bloggers), and input them into the engine. Google Co-op searches only these sites. <\/p>\n

This engine bridges the gap between searching each blog individually, and using a more global search engine like Technorati or Google Blog Search. Those bigger engines can be useful, but I’ve found that they don’t differentiate between dedicated realty bloggers and anyone with a blog, that happens to mention real estate. The big search engines also tend to bring up results from sploggers or almost any site that uses RSS feeds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think this is an insanely great idea, so much so that I’ve deployed it along with our regular sidebar search function. Suppose you’re reading BloodhoundBlog on (ahem!) Dual Agency. Want to hear what other RE.net blogs have to say on the subject? Type “Dual Agency” into the REMBEX search box and see who salutes.<\/p>\n

I can’t sing the praises of this tool enough. It’s even easy to deploy in your own weblog. For me, this is the leverage of genius that the internet brings to us all: Todd gave up some sleep to bring forth a tool that will save all of us time every time we use it — and time is our sole capital. We enrich ourselves by tiny little accretions of time — time we can Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometime very soon I am going to eviscerate another Cheez Whiz Prize winner, but here is a function I would much rather undertake: Delivering praise without limits to an amazingly, outrageously great idea in real estate weblogging. Todd Carpenter runs REMBEX — Real Estate & Mortgage Blogger’s Exchange. It’s a web ring of RE.net sites, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2004,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2004\/who-is-the-most-influential-real-estate-weblogger-in-the-renet-beyond-all-contest-or-doubt-its-dustin-luther\/","url_meta":{"origin":1049,"position":0},"title":"Who is the most influential real estate weblogger in the RE.net? 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