so my best friend is living in laguna, looking at real estate (make that ‘ridiculously overpriced’ houses) and calls me to tell me about this remarkably accurate real estate data site called zillow …naturally, i was like, “shit, yeah, another one of those find-anything claims followed by slow searches and no results for whatever i want to find out about” ..but lo and behold, this site really does kick ass and puts the entire category to shame…zillow offers free valuations and data for over 60 thousand homes in the united states, and though it’s in beta, their coverage and accuracy continues to grow…

…oh, and right in time given the growth of specialty search engines…i read a great quotable bit in a recent business article where this guy says that search engines will evolve just like cable television, a channel for sports, food, fishing and so on….and we’re already seeing it (for example, you can read about the new search age myrmidons, or you can peruse a detailed bit about the category of job search engines)

…and as for zillow, it really does kick ass - plug in the address for that executive you’re profiling and you can find out what he paid and what his assets are worth, what kinds of taxes are being paid and how the asset stacks up…great for university prospect development researchers, executive search folks or any headhunters dealing with relocation discussions…or, of course, great for really nosy bastards like me who just want to learn more about what those guys at enron are gonna get for their homes when the legal retainers run dry…

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