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    Personalizing With “My Zillow”

    If you’ve ever saved a wishlist on Amazon, or a travel itinerary on Expedia, you probably appreciate the value of personalizing your site experience — not to mention having the site remember you each time you come back. Along with a host of ...

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    Seattle’s 25 Best Places to Work

    We got some fun news last week when Zillow was named one of the top 25 places to work in Seattle by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine for their September issue (article not currently online but on newsstands now). The article notes some of the benefits and ...

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    TIME’s 50 Coolest Websites

    We are honored that TIME Magazine included Zillow on its 2006 list of the 50 Coolest Websites, which was announced yesterday. In addition to the Travel & Real Estate category, the list was comprised of several other categories including Time Wasters ...

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    We’ve come a long way, baby

    Six months ago today, Zillow launched the beta site with great… uhh… fanfare… and some interest that frankly overwhelmed us. Once we got stable, we began to be amazed at the insatiable consumer appetite for data and valuation information ...

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    Zillow Mobile: Zestimates to Go!

    Updated (11/26/2008)  With the launch of our Zillow Mobile website, we have discontinued our Zillow Mobile email service.  Please point your mobile web browser at http://mobile.zillow.com/ to get Zestimates and more on your mobile device.    I was ...

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    Hey – this home sold last week!

    It’s been a while since we talked about data coverage. The whole team here has been working hard to keep adding more homes to our database, calculate more and better Zestimate values, and improve our latency with regards to the latest home transactions.

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    Uri Didn’t See This Coming — Elvis’ Home Gets Away

    As we posted here previously, the first home Elvis Presley ever owned was up for sale on eBay.  A couple of weeks ago, psychic Uri Geller and his business partners won the auction. Or, at least he thought he did. Now, Reuters reports that although Mr.

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    Zillow homes in 3D

    This is an exciting day for us at Zillow, as we announced this morning the addition of 3D-like, “birds-eye” aerial photos to our beta site. These remarkably clear and detailed images, shown alongside home details and Zestimates, come from ...