Estate agent told what to do by Rightmove.

It’s interesting what you can get away with when you’re the 800-pound gorilla in the room. According to a recent article from Estate Agent Today, Rightmove has stated two things to a struggling agent;

Stop advertising in expensive newspapers
You need to pay increased joining fee’s in order to make up for the investment we made in [...]

What is Cuil doing for the property market?

If you’re like me, you’re constantly on the lookout for disruptive internet technologies. This past week has seen an amazing PR push for a new search engine run by some ex-employees of Google. It’s called Cuil.
According to the blogosphere and press, here are the salient bits:

it’s run by smart ex-Google people
they claim it’s index [...]

Google translation services on the horizon.

Google has announced it’s intention to provide another “software as service” product in the translation market. This could have an impact to the ‘listing’ market if it gets traction and works well.
How great would it be to send a property description to a Google server, get the translation into Spanish and then show that to [...]