Zillow.com is an online real estate community where users can find and share information about homes. With data on 92 million homes and estimates on another 70 million homes, Zillow attracts nearly 9 million unique visitors a month. The company was founded in 2005 by Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Expedia. The Web site launched in early 2006 with estimate values and data on millions of U.S. homes. Zillow’...
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Zillow.com is an online real estate community where users can find and share information about homes. With data on 92 million homes and estimates on another 70 million homes, Zillow attracts nearly 9 million unique visitors a month. The company was founded in 2005 by Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, former Microsoft executives and founders of Expedia. The Web site launched in early 2006 with estimate values and data on millions of U.S. homes. Zillow’s goal is to help people become smarter about real estate in every stage of the home ownership process—buying, selling, remodeling and financing .
Zillow has stated that it is a media company that generates revenue by selling advertising on the Web site.In April 2009, Zillow announced a partnership to lend its real estate search engine to the Web sites of more than 180 United States newspapers as a part of the Zillow Newspaper Consortium. Zillow shares advertising revenue from the co-branded sites with the newspapers and extends its reach into...
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