Tag: HOUSING

Google has announced it will discontinue the real estate listings in Google Maps on February 10th, 2011. Real estate search was introduced in 2009, and it allowed users to look for property for rent or sale directly on Google Maps. The problem is that it never had the most complete or useful collection of listings, and competing real estate search sites passed it by while the Google Maps team was ...

I'm not able to get this to work completely, and the connection is a little strange, but Google has apparently begun tying together the loose strands of services it provides. In this case, imagine a combination of Maps and Base to divine the housing market. Try typing in "homes for sale" as a search, and a new option appears atop the search results: Search Housing. You can further refine ...