Google Webmaster Central merchandise manager Vanessa Fox is moving to a new position -- leaping over to become product team lead at real estate start-up Zillow. She'll be managing the improvement of new ad, feed and email products at Zillow.

It makes you speculate what Zillow is cooking up for the future with having their aim set on Google engineers.  I've friends that work at Google and I have been told that is the best place to work; I am speculating what the heck Zillow is doing for her and what their working surroundings are like.

Vanessa talks about the move more on her blog, saying:

For the last two years, I have had a fantastic time helping to build Google Webmaster Central. I have loved working with the (ever-expanding!) team, writing about search on the blog and for the help center, and designing features for the webmaster community. And speaking of the webmaster community, I have been lucky enough to have been able to meet them, get to know their challenges, and well, then there’s the drinking. There may have been a little of that too. Search is a fascinating industry and I am thrilled to have had the opportunity to create such exciting things in the space.

Now I have an all-new opportunity to work on the unique challenges of the vertical and local search space at Zillow. I’m moving on from webmaster central knowing that there’s a great team who care as much about this audience as I do and they’ve got exciting plans in store for the coming year. I’ll really miss working with my team, but I’m happy they’ve been getting out and meeting more of you and I know they’ve had a great time drinking with you too. I mean talking. Did I say drinking?

What do you think?

Blaine Newcomb at Baltimore HUD Homes