Pushing Dirt

Google Base is in beta. On full launch, and with some minor tweaking, it could be the commercial real estate category killer. Really a three way killer: it has all the functionality of craigslist, ebay, and classified ads in one site.

There’s next to no property in there, but give it some time…it’s only in beta.

You can create your own Google base home page and Google will also make sure whatever you put in there is search able on Google. You can mass-upload your listings. You can sell stuff. You can tag everything. wow.

I made a foray into trulia.com. can’t see using it to search for my next home.

maybe the same people who make their own beer will enjoy slogging through these incomplete listings of a handful of the properties that are on the market on their own, drifting through the wind without a sale (no pun intended).

Amazing that even in this day and age they have managed to raise $18 million that has clearly been squandered on worthless gimmicks like a “heat map.” Exactly what value does the $18 million heat map have to me as a home buyer? Zilch. Smoke and mirrors, ladies and gentlemen.

The realtor.com (found via Microsoft’s MSN real estate site) has 52 listings in my zip code. Trulia? 15.

The grand total of real estate experience on Trulia’s leadership team? Two years and 10 months.

The commercial world needs a free service like this because there’s no true multiple list in our world. Trulia defines superfluous.

Go ahead. Persuade me I’m wrong.