Attention Active Rain Bloggers, You all heard about Housevalues purchasing a minority stake in Active Rain.

Most of us do not have much nice to say about Housevalues and their other names such as justlisted.com and what ever other names they have come up with.  So the question is...

Why in the world would Housevalues want to buy a minority interest in Active Rain???

Why in the world would Housevalues want to buy a minority interest in Active Rain???

Why in the world would Housevalues want to buy a minority interest in Active Rain???

It is a $2,750,000 link purchase for Housevalues.com and with every blog post you and I make here at Active Rain we are working to make Housevalues.com stronger and better able to compete with us in our own markets so that they can sell customers back to us, which we would have had in the first if companies like Housevalues.com Homegain and others were not getting in the way.

I guess my point is, you need to consider is it worth it to get in bed with your mortal enemy??  Is it worth it to aid and abed the companies who wish to dominate the Google & Yahoo search results for your markets. 

I know the answer I am coming to.  What are your thoughts??

Jim

Thanks for the comments so far.  Aubrey, I and many REALTORS consider companies such as housevalues and homegain (companies who wish to force themselves between us and the consumer) to be the enemy.  How do they force themselves between us and the consumer??  The use the money and PR we give them directly or indirectly, to buy TV ADDS, Get better placement in Google and Yahoo searches (You may not know this but but in almost any Google Search the top 3 possitions will get as many as 5x as many click as the rest of the results combined.)

I will be very surprised if Active Rain allows this post to be featured!!