Agreement integrates listings into GeoCities real estate hub.The Microsoft[R] HomeAdvisor on line real estate service, a comprehensive guide to finding properties and loans, has announced an exclusive distribution agreement with GeoCities, making HomeAdvisor the sole provider of real estate listings at the community site. The deal represents an expanded foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" raid encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my real estate for GeoCities, which will now feature a real estate section called the GeoCities Real Estate Center. The service is available free to Internet users. The announcement further extends the availability of HomeAdvisor throughout the Web following last month's agreements with several portals and Internet service sites, such as Yahoo!, Infoseek, Switchboard, Pathfinder and others. Users at each of these sites have access to property listings and loan offerings from HomeAdvisor, as well as the site's acclaimed neighborhood information and property-buying tutorials. "Home-buying information is an important service for online communities today," said Thomas R. Evans, GeoCities CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president. "By joining forces with HomeAdvisor, we're able to provide online consumers with the most comprehensive real estate information available on the Web today. Microsoft and GeoCities share a common goal to demystify de·mys·ti·fy tr.v. de·mys·ti·fied, de·mys·ti·fy·ing, de·mys·ti·fies To make less mysterious; clarify: an autobiography that demystified the career of an eminent physician. the Web for everyday users, which makes our distribution agreement a tremendous win for GeoCities and HomeAdvisor customers." "This exclusive relationship with GeoCities, reinforces our commitment to providing online consumers with easy access to the richest set of home-buying tools and information available on the Internet," said Ian Morris, lead product manager for HomeAdvisor. "As one of the most highly trafficked sites on the Internet, GeoCities cements the availability of HomeAdvisor across the Internet, making it fast and easy for people to find the best home-buying information available today." Home listings From HomeAdvisor, as well as its neighborhood data and homebuying tutorial information, will be fully integrated into GeoCities new Real Estate Center. Users at GeoCities also will be able to jump directly to HomeAdvisor from the Center. About GeoCities Based in Santa Monica, California For other uses, see Santa Monica (disambiguation). Santa Monica is a coastal city in western Los Angeles County, California, USA. Situated on Santa Monica Bay of the Pacific Ocean, it is surrounded by the City of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades and Brentwood on the north, , with advertising sales offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , GeoCities (http://www.geocities.com) is one of the largest and fastest growing communities of personal Web sites on the Internet. The GeoCities community has grown to over 2.1 million "Homesteads" as of July 1998. Homesteaders have created an estimated 17 million pages of personalized content, attracting over 14.8 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. to and generating over 925 million page views on the GeoCities community, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Relevant Knowledge and Nielsen I/PRO. |
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