Location Inc.’s Neighborhood Search Engine Launches v2.0
August 25, 2008 | Print this page | Share This |
NeighborhoodScout, a nationwide neighborhood search engine for homebuyers, movers and real estate professionals, launched its version 2.0 on August 13. Location Inc., a Rhode Island-based IT company, launched the first version of NeighborhoodScout.com in 2002 to a positive nationwide response.
The site, which had 1.8 million unique visitors last year, has upwards of 220,000 pages of unique content for every state, city, town, village-borough, neighborhood and public school in America, all wrapped around a patented search engine that optimizes results for each user.
“It is exciting to hear good news from a Rhode Island-based ITDM company such as Location Inc. and its website, NeighborhoodScout,” says Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation Executive Director Saul Kaplan. “Location Inc. is a strong company with solid leadership and good prospects for growth. Rhode Island has a great foundation to build upon in the information technology and digital media sector and Location Inc. and NeighborhoodScout are leaders in this growing sector of our economy.”
Location Inc. developed NeighborhoodScout by coupling new technologies with Ph.D.-level geographic expertise to serve the location selection needs of employees, families and businesses. NeighborhoodScout is set to change the way consumers select residential real estate and make relocation decisions.
The website is designed to simplify house-hunting, relocating and settling into a new town for the growing number of Americans who shop for housing online. Homebuyers can locate their ideal neighborhoods in any area of the United States and real estate professionals can service those homebuyers through exclusive town sponsorships. Relocation professionals and human resource managers can also use NeighborhoodScout to attract clients and recruit employees.
The improvements to NeighbohoodScout’s website include improvements to the user interface and an enhancement of the data sources used to generate content for the site through new algorithms. The site is now entirely accessible to Google and other search engines. In the past, almost all of the content in NeighborhoodScout.com was invisible to search engines and, as a result, few people could find NeighborhoodScout on the Internet. The new site removed the accessibility problem entirely by day-lightning most of the site’s 300 gigabytes of geo-targeted information.
With NeighborhoodScout, people have a way to easily identify their ideal neighborhoods, based on what’s important to them, using one of the most sophisticated neighborhood-matching systems anywhere.
www.neighborhoodscout.com
