Google Tests Recipe Carousel Navigation In Search
Google is testing a navigation slider feature in the recipe images within the recipe search results. This illustrates to searchers that they can swipe over the image to see additional images from the recipe article.
Google Local Ads Titled Choose A Place In The Area
Google is testing local ads in its search results titled “Choose a place in the area.” This comes in a format with image carousels and list views.
Google Notes Feature Sending Emails With Statistics
Google added a new search feature to its Search Labs named Notes a few weeks ago and Google is already pushing its use by emailing those who created notes some statistics about how many people viewed the notes they added on specific search results.
Google Checks 4 Billion Host Names Each Day For Robots.txt
Did you know that Google Search checks about four billion host names each and every day for robots.txt purposes? Gary Illyes said in the December Search Off The Record podcast “we have about four billion host names that we check every single day for robots.txt.”
Bing Chat Adds Favicons To Links
Microsoft has added favicons to the links within Bing Chat / Copilot. Favicons should make the links beneath the AI-generated answer more clickable and noticeable to users.
The jobs, gigs and side hustles agents took on to get through 2023
From Uber driving to launching a print shop, agents came up with creative ways to supplement their businesses and stay entrepreneurial during a slow market.
What is your New Year’s resolution? Pulse
As the calendar turns to 2024, you’ve got a whole new opportunity to start the new year off on the right foot. What’s the plan?
How this indie brokerage is transforming agents’ lives
In his latest Snapshot profile, Brandon Doyle talks to Dan and Melody Smith of Anvil Real Estate about their leadership and training philosophy and their “relentless pursuit of agents’ success.”
It’s time to consider eliminating NAR’s Clear Cooperation Policy
According to coach Darryl Davis, although its intentions were good, the unintended consequences of the Clear Cooperation Policy may make it more trouble than it’s worth.
Commercial Real Estate: The “Buy Box” for Buying BIG Properties
For the past year, commercial real estate has been the disappointing big brother of rental properties. As housing prices went up, commercial real estate prices went down. When primary mortgage […]
Domicile takes gamification of Zillow-scrolling to whole new level
The app is the first-ever game to pull real-time MLS data to merge gaming with an ever-changing real estate market where users can guess home prices and connect with agents.
House Hacking spiked amid COVID. In 2024, it will be a household name
Last month, Fannie Mae lowered its down payment minimum for some properties, clearing a path for investors like Alejandro and Jessicas Cuevas, who bought in Chicago with hacking in mind.
US home prices tally biggest uptick of 2023 amid steep mortgage rates
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index posted a yearly increase of 4.8 percent during October, their fastest annual rate increase of 2023.
LoanCare says data breach affected 1.3M mortgage customers
Parent company Fidelity National Financial has not said whether other subsidiaries were affected in cybersecurity incident it discovered and contained in November.
Title insurer First American and many subsidiaries remain offline
The Dec. 20 cybersecurity incident has derailed closings and generated complaints about the lack of communication since the company took some systems offline.
