Comments on: Email Exchange Regarding NAR’s Recent Decision to Back MIBOR

By: Arizona Homes For Sale

Arizona Homes For Sale — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:37:46 +0000

We need to group our financial resources and hire a top law firm to fight the monster that controls our MLS data, on a national level

By: Anthony' Indianapolis Real Estate

Anthony' Indianapolis Real Estate — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:48:16 +0000

It seems to me that this controversy is a vestige of a much earlier time where Google was still a nascent technology; a time when companies like Yahoo! and AOL were still the dominant players and ‘fed’ people what they may or may not have wanted–a true Web 1.0 approach. Opinions about how IDX should work were formed in during these times.

By: Cary NC Real Estate

Cary NC Real Estate — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:50:16 +0000

I agree that this issue needs to be resolved and I think it is a disgrace that the issue got pushed back another 6 months. Like San Diego Property Management said, NAR needs to become more current with technology and how we put it to use to help our businesses grow.

By: Charles Richey

Charles Richey — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:49:23 +0000

So what happens when Google labels realtor.com as a bad neighborhood? How can they justify sticking their head in the sand as a valid business model?

By: San Diego Property Management

San Diego Property Management — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:37:22 +0000

This policy decision cracks me up! When I think about what NAR is going, the picture of a petulant child, banging his head against the wall crying out comes to mind. At every turn, NAR has simply tried to avoid the reality of the technological world we now live in. Classifying google as a scraper site is tantamount to name calling. Until the powers that be at NAR embrace technology, we will all continue to be under-served by this organization. Incidentally, I write a blog on San Diego Property Management.

By: Waterfront Real Estate

Waterfront Real Estate — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:31:50 +0000

I would be very interested as well to hear the response from Google. But, unless they have a personal relationship with them, it may take 6-8 weeks for a response if they get one at all. That is not a knock on Google. They get millons of emails and requests daily and by their on admission they do not respond to all emails.

By: Braxton Beyer

Braxton Beyer — Thu, 21 May 2009 02:45:05 +0000

I vaguely remember hearing something about that case. What happened with it?

Also, someone during this discussion in the blogosphere said they had a contact at Google and talked to them and the contact said they would be looking into this? Did anyone see that anywhere? Did anything come out of it?

By: Brantford Realtor

Brantford Realtor — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:54:47 +0000

“Seems they definitely don’t want to mess with Google”

I don’t blame them, Google can get you a ton of traffic but it could also take away that traffic. Do you remember the girl that sued google because a change in their algorithm took her site from the first spot on the first page to page 10-15 for most of her keywords?

By: Steve Trang

Steve Trang — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:18:57 +0000

Issue has been postponed for six months due to MIBOR. What a disgrace!

By: Steve Trang

Steve Trang — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:33:49 +0000

The vote is going to be tomorrow. They will add language that says search engine indexing does not qualify as scraping. I still don’t see how it could be against the client’s best interest that search engines could not find their homes. Everyone hold your breath!