Did Google Scape my web-site?

The News was unleased on Agent Genius on this post by Paula Henry. It has over 387 comments.

Now a web-site has been set up to follow the story.

I am not going to regurgitate what has transpired you can read the posts by the writers themselves and check out Google Is Not a Scraper.com

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Jay Thompson was asked to join the NAR MLS Committee.

As Jay says, "I don't know who is crazier, for accepting or NAR for asking." I personally think this is great. No knows the internet like Jay and will be a great voice for us technological Realtors.

This is the time to speak up and let your voice be heard. The issue was put on hold until the November NAR meeting. 

Please take the time to read the posts and understand the issue.

The last two days,  I received 3 Google Alerts from my alerts on Ann Arbor Homes for Sale. Both were from Weichart Real Estate Company. They were not their listings but other local companies.

This is the exact way Paula wanted to syndicate her listings and MIBOR said, "NO".

(I don't have a problem with this but if they are having their programmers update there site to syndicate our listings like Trulia, Zillow and R dot com....we should have the same ability to do so.)

Don't ya think?

I guarantee since this issue hit the blogosphere all the big companies are out making their IDX searchs Google Friendly.

Now if you go and add the address in Google, the Weichart web site comes up on page 1 for the address.

So who will get the lead?

Not YOU!!

My good friend Matt Stigliano wrote a post on Activerain if you want to read the summary and the links to all the posts on it.

This is critical my Activerain blogging friends to know and understand the issue.

Call to Action:

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