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Some kind words:
Recently I ran across a UK site that I found rather amazing. It is amazing in the same way that Google is amazing. It has an extremely simple interface, is lighting fast, predictive and intuitive. - Point2Agent
Esquire shortlists DotHomes* with Waitrose, Fashion Academy and Yotel as Best New Idea 2007 at its annual Man at the Top Awards
The Guardian shortlists DotHomes, a search engine that understands property, as one of Britain’s top 10 dotcoms to keep track of. - The Guardian
Business Week shortlists DotHomes’ originator as one of Europe’s Young Entrepreneurs 2007 - BusinessWeek
The Google of Property!… It would take a brave man indeed to take on the might of Google, especially at the tender age of 23, but that is precisely what Artemi Krymski is doing. - Esquire Magazine, UK, September 2007
New Internet pioneers… The British search engine DotHomes is using a new technique to forage the Internet for real estate. - Het Financieele Dagblad
DotHomes has built an impressive algorithm to deal with the complexities which we have described [crawling, parsing and natural language analysis]. With financial backing, it seems that this has the potential to be an important player in the online estate agency arena. – Clear Capital, market report, 23/03/07
DotHomes is a winning combination of technology, presentation and user interface. Watching this start-up gain influence, audience and becoming a key player in the real estate world is something that we at Blognation will be following closely. – BlogNation
What makes DotHomes stand out is the breadth and depth of its database due to its excellent data-extraction engine […] In the six weeks preceding Christmas, their property coverage increased from 26,166 property listings to 130,201 property listings—from the Websites of 343 estate agencies. This makes DotHomes the first and only property site to feature listings from all ten of the UKs largest estate agency groups. “Not even the old dinosaur portal, RightMove, features all ten.” - Vecosys
[DotHomes] added Google Maps to their property search which they launched on Christmas Eve. - Vecosys
DotHomes [has] turned up the heat. The US based realty search engines (Trulia, and to a lesser degree, Redfin) are quickly getting lapped by their European counterparts […] DotHomes has added a fourth tab to the Google map that along with Satellite and Hybrid imagery, provides heat maps of local prices per square foot (their implementation recalls the visually stunning GeoIQ mashups) […] It’d be nice to see some of this innovation trickle over to this side of the pond one of these days. - FutureOfRealEstateMarketing
DotHomes, the UK-based real estate search engine, rolled out video tours on all its listings last week […] To view a video of a property, just click on the live (green) video links under any of the listing descriptions. The video pops up and auto-plays in a Lightbox-style window. Very slick. I was particularly impressed with DotHomes’ upload function, which [allows uploading of] a video file from a mobile phone via MMS. - FutureOfRealEstateMarketing
[DotHomes’] the YouTube of real estate. - Telegraph
The other thing I really like about DotHomes, that also separates it from the others, is its support for microformats (hlisting) and simple list extensions. In the future, being able to discover via metadata, using personalised preference rules, will l certainly make finding timely and relevant information much easier. - TechCrunchUK
DotHomes is my current favourite (award for best interface and what awards to be the best extraction backend, apparently all crawl and parse) - Fred Destin
There are a rash of new competitors in the UK property search space, looking to offer consumers a better experience than the existing portals like Rightmove. The most interesting seems to be DotHomes, primarily becuase of the quality of the customer experience in terms of freshness, accuracy, navigability and product innovation - in addition to the standard Google Maps mashup, they also make great use of RSS, Skype integration and are smart enough in their crawling to derive useful semantics like tags (ie. garden, fireplace, etc) and price per sq ft. - Saul Klein
* DotHomes was formally known as Extate.
Presentations:
- Invited presentation to Google engineers
- Invited presentation at Essential Web 2007
Prosaic ramblings:
- Web search versus portal search
Press releases
- Property search engine Extate raises venture funding - 29/08/07
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