Meet the New Realtor: Google

Although it is in a fairly primordial stage, this new home-finding tool from Google may turn out to be as formidable a challenge to Realtors as the Department of Justice. It does little more than aggregate public information (as is Google’s wont), but when the public information in question is the listings of homes for sale in any given city, there is the great potential for upheaval.

(Hat tip: Matt Hawke)

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COMMENTS: 38

  1. editorguy says:

    The new G-man cometh.
    But I can’t wait to see a massive, humming Google home search. With links to public records relevant to the property? Are you kidding me?

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  2. editorguy says:

    The new G-man cometh.
    But I can’t wait to see a massive, humming Google home search. With links to public records relevant to the property? Are you kidding me?

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  3. frankenduf says:

    realtors are leeches, anyway

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  4. frankenduf says:

    realtors are leeches, anyway

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  5. Videos, phonebook, blogs, patent search, scholarly paper searches, and now real estate, what’s next for the Internet Empire? Supermarket produce searches? Encyclopedias? How much is too much for the modern-age Rockefellers?

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  6. Videos, phonebook, blogs, patent search, scholarly paper searches, and now real estate, what’s next for the Internet Empire? Supermarket produce searches? Encyclopedias? How much is too much for the modern-age Rockefellers?

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  7. Chewxy says:

    Well, at least then you would know whether a real estate agent is screwing with you

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  8. Chewxy says:

    Well, at least then you would know whether a real estate agent is screwing with you

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