Google: online real estate agent
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Yesterday when my when my wife and I were driving home after collecting our daughter from a friend’s house, we tuned in to a local CBC radio station, All Points West, getting a breathless, and lengthy, rhapsody on the wonders of Google Sreet View from an estate agent.
It was hard-core — superlative on top of superlative, example after example, almost as though he’d been rigorously coached by Google. Which of course, he hadn’t. Right?
How did realtors ever survive without the company? But now Google is here, the world is every estate agents’ oyster.
And Gogle itself is about to become a real estate agent with a free ’service’ in the UK.
“When the 10-ton gorilla comes along and puts its prime real estate to use, competitors quake,” says the Financial Times. “No wonder Rightmove lost 10 per cent of its value on news Google is storming on to its turf with a UK property portal .
“For consumers, there’s plenty to like about a combination of Google, the world’s favourite search engine, and UK bricks and mortar. Google’s intuitive site is a dream for homehunters: just type in your chosen area and a map appears with little balloons above listed properties. You can see at a glance proximity to stations and then click for full specifications.”
Coincidentally, Gargoyle says it’s added nine more Canadian cities — St John’s, Sherbrooke, London, Sudbury, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Nanaimo and Victoria — to Street View.
We spotted Gargle SnoopMobile in our village, but so far, Google has left us off its map.
Oh! The shame of it!
Homes (and faces and license plates) are included without their owners’ knowledge or permission. If they want out, they have to ask.
JN
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