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Trulia is a True Property Search Engine

Sunday, October 02, 2005

TruliaTrulia is the name of a new online property listings database. It's available online for home buyers to use, allowing them to browse seemingly millions of listings all over the United States. Though right now, it's in beta form, and only contains California properties.

What makes this unique is that it has a robot (or spider) that crawls the Internet searching for real estate agent websites that feature online property listings. It then captures the information from those sites and stores it into its database. For all intents and purposes, it's the same thing that Google and Yahoo both do already, but is focused only on property listings.

If you are a real state agent, and your website also publishes property listings through an XML feed, you can submit your feed to Trulia, and it will automatically update its listings whenever your feed is updated.

So how do old listings get removed from their database? Well, if the robot revisits an agent's website, and finds the property no longer there, then it can be removed from its database. However, this may mean that Trulia runs the risk of having lots of outdated property listings. If an agent is providing Trulia with an XML feed, then it can remove old listings as soon as the agent removes the listing from the feed.

3 Comments:

  • for new york city check out http://www.cribseek.com

    By Anonymous, at 4:51 PM  

  • Tulia is truly interesting yet does not feature New York City real estate i wonder why?, i found another great site with google maps and customized rss feeds called http://www.citycrybs.com - check it out!

    By Anonymous, at 8:29 PM  

  • Well, have you checked out www.urbanregistry.com? They silently launched their beta version last week. I just looked - 27,000 rentals in Manhattan, over 1,000 in Brooklyn, New York. For sale properties in Manhattan: over 7,000, and over 2000 in Brooklyn; close to 800 in Queens, over 2000 in Staten Island & 1000 odd available for sale in the Bronx. Yep, I believe they're the first ones to have as many rentals, particularly. Pretty good too. Check them out, if you're looking.

    By Anonymous, at 8:31 AM  

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