Google spurned as real estate sites go their own way
GOOGLE wants Australia’s biggest property listing websites Realestate.com.au and Domain.com.au to join its newly launched real estate maps service, despite neither player showing any sign it is willing to partner with the search engine.
Google has been developing the application — which enables people to see houses for sale on Google Maps — for the past 12 months, taking the framework of a system developed for the US market four years ago and re-tooling it for the local market.