Archive for the ‘zillow’ Category
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Zillow, which launched a mortgage market place for free in 2008, will now be charging lenders on a cost per lead basis. This announcement follows Google's to test comparison ads for verticals like "mortgage".How much will it cost?The market will determine the price for each contact; Zillow will not be setting price. ...
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Today, Google announced their test release of comparison ads. Comparison ads lets users compare multiple, relevant offers more easily.Here is how it works. Lets take a look at the keyword 'mortgage'.If the user clicks on the ad, they will be taken to a page with more detailed sponsored results. Once ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Spencer Rascoff, the COO of Zillow was just on Fox Business News giving an overview of the real estate market. (link to video ).
Here are some of the low lights:
1 in 5 American homeowners are underwater on their mortgage (20.4 million homes)
In 2006 and 2007 the median down payment ...
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Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
Zillow launched the iPhone app on April 28th, and according to Spencer Racoff, Zillow's COO, now has over 40,000 downloads. This makes the Zillow app the fast growing Real Estate iPhone app in history.
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Zillow has been experimenting with large brand advertisers by providing them with branded real estate within the Zillow discussion forums. Currently, Propel Water is advertising within these sections. Zillow is currently receiving about 8.5 million unique vistors per month and continues to grow at a rapid pace.
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Rich Barton, the CEO of Zillow recently wrote a post entitled "Difficult Times, Difficult Decisions". In it he says:This week we are reducing our workforce by 25%. This was an incredibly painful decision for me and the leadership team, but, in the end, we concluded that we had no choice ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
CNET recently wrote a post on who they think are the top 11 web companies that may be in trouble considering the current state of the economy. Zillow.com made this list.Zillow The real-estate site's revenue model is advertising. Real estate and bank advertising. Unless the real-estate research site starts charging for foreclosure ...
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Friday, October 10th, 2008
According to Compete.com, both Trulia and Zillow saw a decrease in traffic for the month of September. Trulia fell 11.8% from the previous month and Zillow fell 2.2%.
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
It doesn't matter. A great viral video from Zillow or maybe not.
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Michael Dougherty, who co-founded Redfin and was then at Zillow, will be launching a new start-up called Fridge Door. SeattlePI.com says the start-up will not be in the real estate space but rather the "personal communications space."
I am also guessing that Fridge Door will not be the name used for ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
First off. What is Twitter? Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
I just started getting into twittering and to be honest I think it is stupid. I barely ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
I just got done listening to a great radio interview with Rich Barton, the CEO of Zillow and Founder of Expedia.com. The interview can be found on MadeFromScratch.
Rich talks about his days at Microsoft where he founded Expedia at the age of 25 as well as his reasons for founding ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
This morning, Google announced their recent acquisition of both Zillow and Trulia for $4.4 Billion. The terms were $2 billion in cash and the remaining in Google stock options. I had the opportunity to interview Eric Schmidt, Google's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer on the Google Plane.The Google Plane has ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
If you are familiar with the site, hotornot.com, then you know that people can vote on who is the hottest man or woman from a showing of two photos.
Zillow just launched a similar tool called Zillow Dueling Digs. Instead of voting on people, you can vote on the best kitchens, ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
When Larry and Sergey of Google were trying to come up with a name for the company, they thought they were spelling Googol ( 1 googol = 1.0 × 10 to the power of 100) correctly when they spelled it Google.
This misspelling was a good thing for the company since ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Vanessa Fox, an old Google Colleague , has left Zillow to work for Ignition Partners. She was with Zillow for a total of 5 months.
My other passion is helping to build the web and working with start ups on innovative, kick-ass ideas. I’ll be doing more of that, particularly as ...
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