Nestoria used as an example of Google Maps API
Congratulations to UK property search engine Nestoria following the news that it has been selected by Google for a case study on the use of the Google Maps API.
Trulia raises $10m in funding
US vertical property search engine Trulia has raised $10m (£5m) in a third round of funding led by Sequoia Capital. The company has now raised $17.7m (£8.9m) to date.
Nestoria launches in Spain
Property website Nestoria is set to launch a version of its vertical search engine in Spain.
Moveme.com plans your house move
Moveme.com is a new website which aims to take the hassle out of moving house in the UK, by providing a tool that allows you to plan all aspects of the process.
The site provides a 'diary' to help you to arrange all aspects of the house move - getting quotes from removal firms, redirecting your mail, organising surveys, and so on.
Are estate agents doomed?
Our family has spent the last few weeks moving house, and two things became clear to us throughout the whole process – how important the internet is in marketing your property, and what a totally noisome experience it is to deal with most estate agents.
Although neither conclusion is newsworthy, it got me wondering whether Freakonomics is right and that the current industry model is set for annihilation at the hands of the web…
Why online PR and SEO go hand in hand
Once you’ve optimised your website copy, you’ll find that the most important part of optimisation happens off the page – where links from external sites back to yours play a vital role in telling Google and other search engines how important your site really is.
TV leads to web as rebate hunters flock to search
Search engines saw an explosion in the number of Britons searching for Council Tax last week after a documentary showed how thousands may be elligible for a rebate.
Martyn Lewis of Moneysavingexpert.com appeared on TV to report how hundreds of users of his site's forum had claimed up to £1,000 because their homes were incorrectly banded.
That prompted an avalanche of search traffic form rate-payers Googling for more information, according to data from Hitwise.
2007: The Year of the Customer?
A number of reports have declared that 2007 is ‘the year of the customer’. For many it is because every year is the year of the customer. For others, it is because they are jumping on the latest fad.
Being customer focused is a challenge, but many have succeeded. In the blog post I'll reveal ten lessons from companies that have achieved award winning Service Excellence.
Interview: Online mapping guru Ed Parsons
Ed Parsons is the former chief technology officer of the Ordnance Survey, and one of the most knowledgeable people in the UK’s geospatial industry.
Before his much talked about departure last month, he was one of the central figures in the debate over the Ordnance Survey’s licensing regime – i.e., whether it should offer low cost access to mapping data to encourage the development of applications and mash-ups. He had also been pushing for the organisation to launch an API for non-commercial services and to adopt an open source model in some of its projects.
I caught up with him last week to find out more about internet mapping and his plans for the future…
Interview with Ed Freyfogle of Nestoria
Nestoria is a property-focused vertical search engine based in the UK, founded by former engineers at Yahoo.
I talked to co-founder Ed Freyfogle to find out more about the site, the challenges of starting up in the UK and APIs...
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Graham Charlton
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