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Matt Stigliano
October 14, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Benn – Thanks for continuously finding cool stuff for me to play with. AgentShield is a really cool idea in a town like San Antonio where so much is about new home communities and new builders. Finally a way to showcase (and this ties in with an awesome plan I have about one very specific community) and not feel like you’re just sending someone else traffic.
Jim Duncan
October 14, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Homethinking’s data is so wrong as to be irresponsible. Somehow I’m selling homes in Charlottesville and Texas. Nifty; I didn’t even know Texas and Virginia offered reciprocal licenses.
But … I have a 5-star rating! Whoo-hoo! 🙂
Bob
October 14, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Rentbits is basically just a scraper site run by a few ex-googlers. I would like to know if their bot honors robots.txt.
James Higginbotham
October 15, 2008 at 6:40 am
Being a fan of Dwellgo, as well as the architect and developer for the launch of the first version, I am excited to see Dwellgo featured on your website! The team is fantastic and have a heart for helping people find the perfect family and investment property! I hope you will check it out!
Dan Daugherty - rentBits
October 15, 2008 at 7:13 am
Hi Bob,
Thank you for your question.
A vast amount of our 500,000 rental listings are fed to us via a feed. The remaining our crawled using our bot technology. Yes, we 100% respect those sites that do not want their site crawled. For those that have a feed or want us to crawl their rental listings, they can submit their site here for free:
Thanks,
Dan Daugherty
rentBits.com
Niki Scevak - Homethinking
October 15, 2008 at 7:43 am
@Jim – sorry you feel that way. You are completely free to claim your profile and change anything on it. I have also cleaned up the TX listings and again sorry for that. Please feel free to email me at feedback at homethinking dot com and I am happy to answer any other questions.
Dave Dugdale
October 15, 2008 at 9:32 am
Benn,
Good write up, some of those sites I have never heard of before.
Hi Bob (I met you at SES), I can tell you Dan’s site are very respectful of robots files.
Dave
Dan Daugherty
October 15, 2008 at 1:17 pm
rentBits and Rent Marketer mentioned in AgentGenius – https://agentgenius.com/?p=5701
Bob
October 15, 2008 at 1:35 pm
@Dan, thanks for the quick answer. One of my clients saw your bot the other day, which is why i asked.
@Doug, glad to hear that. Will you be at PubCon?
Dave Dugdale
October 15, 2008 at 3:23 pm
@Bob I will be at PubCon. That is coming soon isn’t it?
TR
October 17, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I think a big one you are missing is Property Previews. I have been using it since the launch and love it. I am saving tons of money and time with free video creation and internet distribution.
Babak
October 28, 2008 at 9:12 am
Thanks for the mention Benn. We, indeed, have some exciting things in the works for CondoGala.com. Stay tuned… =)