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Place of Mine Makes Finding Your Next Apartment Easy with In-Depth Maps and Ratings
on August 17th, 2012 from Lifehacker by
Place of Mine is a fantastic apartment hunting tool with a ton of features. The webapp searches listings from sources across the web, maps them with overlays such as bus lines and restaurant heatmaps, and also rates listings for you. ...
PlaceOfMine Takes Pain out of Moving
on July 30th, 2012 from The Next Web by
Moving is a massive pain in the backside. The actual process of moving your belongings from one domicile to another is difficult, but can be hired out to a certain extent. The process of finding a place to live, however, is much harder to outsource. Apartment hunting, especially in popular urban areas such as San Francisco and New York City, can be positively maddeningly difficult. ...
Online Tools For Homeowners, Renters
on April 27th, 2012 from The Chicago Tribune by
... PlaceofMine.com, the apartment search engine, is an aggregator that reaches into thousands of websites and combs through millions of rental properties to find houses and apartments that match a renter's pre-selected criteria. ...
Apartment-Rental Websites and Apps
on April 23rd, 2012 from Timeout by and
... What Kayak did for flights, this website hopes to do for rentals. Launched in February, it allows you to search listings from a bevy of sources, including StreetEasy and Craigslist, as well as local classifieds, brokerage websites and property managers. ...
Land a Pad Without Using Craigslist
on April 5th, 2012 from Wired by
When looking for a new apartment, the go-to for most people is still Craigslist. And while the old wagon wheel is versatile, it’s not really great for anything in particular. The site often presents apartment listings without an image or full description of potential abodes, offers no sense of what neighborhoods have to offer, and lurking scams can snag even the most incredulous home hunters. ...
Business News Roundup
on March 24th, 2012 from The News-Gazette by
CHAMPAIGN — Champaign-based Cazoodle has launched Place of Mine, an online service that aggregates apartment listings from thousands of websites and helps people find the apartment that's right for them. ...
New Service Streamlines Apartment Searches
on March 16, 2012 from Inman News
Champaign, Ill.-based Cazoodle, an online search technology startup, is entering the real estate rental servicing market. The service, launched in early February, aggregates rental listings -- including houses, condos and apartment units -- from many online sources and presents them in one interface. ...
Place Of Mine Takes on Padmapper by Focusing on Collaborative House Hunting
on Febuary 20, 2012 from Pando Daily by
Launching today is Place Of Mine, a new home-hunting tool aiming to take the throne from the incumbent cool kid, Padmapper. How? By focusing on collaboration. ...
Average Monthly Rent in Baltimore City: $1,350
on October 6, 2011 from Baltimore Sun by
Average rents in the city -- counting everything, from apartments to rowhouses -- have risen about 9 percent this year, according to Cazoodle, a site that gathers rental listings from across the Internet. ...
Amid Rental Spikes, is Buying Looking Better Again?
on October 5, 2011 from boston.com by
... The median rent for a two bedroom in Boston and its suburbs is nearing the $2,000 mark, according to a new survey by Champagne, Illinois-based rental market data cruncher Cazoodle. ...
Local Radio Show with Kerris Lee from Cazoodle and host Alex Ruggieri
on August 23, 2011 from Ruggieri Team
Most Figures Show Rents Going One Way -- Up
on July 18, 2011 from The Baltimore Sun by
...Cazoodle's statistics suggest that houses for rent aren't experiencing the same trend. Average monthly rent for those properties dropped 2.5 percent, the company says...
Local Radio interview with Kerris Lee, Truman Shuck of Cazoodle with host Alex Ruggieri.
on July 16, 2011 from Ruggieri Team
Property Trax: Average Price for Madison Apt Rentals Rose Nearly 18 Percent Year-over-year in May, New Survey Finds
on June 29, 2011 from Wisconsin State Journal by
...Describing Cazoodle as similar to companies including hakia, PowerSet and ontoprise, blog author Markus Klems said Cazoodle "leverages the large and growing amount of structured data within specific knowledge domains. With Semantic search across multiple Web sources, Cazoodle's search engines enable vast coverage of available information."...
Cazoodle Takes ‘Deep Web’ Searches Further by Displaying VeriSign Seal with Search Results
on May 19, 2011 from Symantec by
By joining VeriSign Seal-in-Search from Symantec, Cazoodle produces 9.36 percent more click-through traffic for retailers whose search results include VeriSign seal.
Hot Spots, Apps, Online Contests Tap Shoppers on the Go
on May 7, 2011 from Sun-Times by
...Cazoodle introduced in April its search function that lets shoppers access a single list of retailers with a searched-for product, along with the product price, reviews, ratings and location of the closest store selling that product...
Six Tips to Finding the Best Deals on Rent
on May 4, 2011 from MarketWatch by
...Cazoodle.com pulls listings from nearly 10,000 websites, including newspaper classifieds, online forums and individual property management sites. It's important to be persistent in a search - monitoring the Web for new listings on a regular basis. Search engines can help make the search more efficient, said Govind Kabra, chief technology officer at Cazoodle...
Using Public Data to Fight a War
on Febuary 7, 2011 from ReadWriteWeb by
How does a technology built for apartment-hunting end up being evaluated by the U.S. Army for use in Afghanistan? Cazoodle is using public data sources like Flickr and OpenStreetMap to build detailed guidebooks for American soldiers...
Companies Top Innovation Competition
on January 3, 2011 from The News-Gazette by
...One of six finalists in the later-stage category was Champaign-based Cazoodle, which is building search engines using a technology that can transform unstructured Web content into structured format...
Content is King as Online Shoppers Look to Buy from Trusted Sources
on January 3, 2011 from Chicago Tribune by
...To improve the search process, Cazoodle is using innovative data-modeling technology to build vertical search engines that aggregate data from thousands of sites. For example, the technology can help people find apartments according to exact specifications, which may include location, price range and willingness to take pets. Instead of getting a list of sites, the user will see actual rental listings...
State of Illinois Announces 12 Finalists in Innovate Illinois Competition
on December 13, 2010 from Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center
...Cazoodle: Builds new search engines through the strength of their Data Factory technology that can crawl and transform the unstructured Web content into structured format...
365 Connect Launches Leasing Data Integration with Cazoodle.com
on July 20, 2010 from CBS Money Watch Finance
Cazoodle Apartment Search is being touted throughout the multifamily housing industry as the "Next Generation Search Engine" for apartment rentals, and 365 Connect and MultifamilyBiz.com are proud to partner the "Next Generation Platform" with Cazoodle...
Cazoodle Announces a New Vertical Search Portal for Vacation Rentals
on May 3, 2010 from PR Newswire
Cazoodle is pleased to announce the launch of its Vacation Rental vertical search destination at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The service is powered by Cazoodle's revolutionary structured data extraction technology...
Cazoodle Shopping Search
on December 15, 2009 from TheBAG.com by Laurie Dixon
Friends, shoppers no longer need to visit different websites to find the electronics they are interested in. Cazoodle Shopping Search is the first and only organic shopping search service that simultaneously provides comprehensive as well as precise product information...
Practical Use for Semantics
on September 27, 2009 from BLUEREEK by Barry O'Gorman
... Read an interesting piece on www.cazoodle.com. For now offering comparison shopping re electronic goods and apartment rental (in US). Authors claim to be using the power of their semantic search engine to extract the relevant data from multiple sites to present detailed product purchasing options and comparisons...
Cazoodle Shopping Search Launches Service for Electronics
on September 27, 2009 from PULSE2 by Amit Chowdhry
Cazoodle Inc. is a start-up company that spun out of a project at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). Cazoodle was founded by Professor Kevin C. Chang and a research team of undergraduate/graduate students. Cazoodle is located at EnterpriseWorks, an incubation facility based on the Research Park at UIUC...
DEMO Fall 09: the "Smart Money" Category
on September 23, 2009 from Los Angeles Tech Culture by Osman Ali
... The energy infused into the audience by Cazoodle's presentation or their new Cazoodle Shopping Beta. Although not as popular as other apartment search aggregators based on traffic alone, one can argue that the quality and expanse of results of Cazoodle Apartment search is among the best...
Cool Products, Companies at DEMOfall 09
on September 23, 2009 from Network World by Keith Shaw
... I didn't think a comparison shopping site was needed these days, but Cazoodle helped convince me otherwise. The site utilizes large scale data integration technology to scan thousands of Web sources to create a deeper list of options for shoppers, quite often providing better prices...
Cazoodle Shopping
on September 22, 2009 from Time Saving Tutorials by parrotguy
Cazoodle.com has a super product search that combines pricing history, specifications and vendor information. Easy to use, yet very powerful. This is a run, don't walk to site...
DEMO: Cazoodle Helps you Find Shopping Deals and Info Across the Web
on September 22, 2009 from VentureBeat by Anthony Ha
Cazoodle Shopping Search helps shoppers find the product information that they need. The company says it uses semantic search technology to connect shoppers with offers from every merchant, allowing you to integrate both deals and knowledge from multiple sites...
DEMO: Cazoodle Helps You Find Shopping Deals and Info Across the Web
on September 22, 2009 from TechOat
Cazoodle Shopping Search helps shoppers find the product information that they need. The company says it uses semantic search technology to connect shoppers with offers from every merchant, allowing you to integrate both deals and knowledge from multiple sites...
NCSA Teams up with U.S. Army to Devise Smart Web Crawling System
on July 23, 2009 from TECH.COM by Erika Strebel
... The NCSA team's Web crawler was integrated with the user interface that Vertex had designed. Also, because the Army expressed an interest in mining the deep Web -- databases, live newsfeeds and data hidden behind form searches that makes a large segment of the data available online -- suggested collaboration with Cazoodle, a software company launched by former NCSA Faculty Fellow Kevin Chang, a professor in the University of Illinois Computer Science Department...
Ultimate ILS Aggregator: Too Good to Be True?
on June 29, 2009 from Multifamily Executive Magazine by Chris Wood
... Promising "one search, all rentals, entire Web," Champaign, Ill.-based Cazoodle went live three months ago and is currently working out kinks like how to display pay-per-click featured listings and allow partnerning ILSs to gain better edit control of their listings...
RentShout Expands Rental Property Advertising Coverage to Cazoodle and ApartmentHunterz
on June 23, 2009 from Go Smart Solutions
... Cazoodle unveiled their nationwide apartment search service earlier this year at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The site has an intuitive map search which enables renters to narrow down their search in a step-by-step fashion from anywhere in the United States...
Cazoodle Plunges into the Deep Web
on June 22, 2009 from melrossmk by melrossmk
... Cazoodle leverages the big and turning sum of structured data within specific knowledge base. With Semantic hunt accross multiple Web origins, Cazoodle 's hunting engines enable immense coverage of available info...
An Interview with Kevin Chang, Co-founder of Cazoodle
on June 11, 2009 from Alt Search Engines by Hope Leman
... Cazoodle was started by a bunch of graduate students and me, so you could imagine what we got when I asked the students to brainstorm when we were looking for "driving applications." They came up with two areas -- apartments and used cars. And, you know why! We eventually picked apartments according to their ranking of pain...
Awareness Watch Newsletter V7N6 June 2009
on May 23, 2009 from Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
Our section is on P.27.
Radio Interview - Central Illinois Business with Alex Ruggieri
on May 16, 2009 from Ruggieri Team
Apartment Search with Maps/Pictures
on May 16, 2009 from SOLUTIONS I HAVE FOUND
Cazoodle Apartment Search - One Search, All Apartments, Entire Web!
Cazoodle - Search, Integrate, and Organize -- The Real World
on May 12, 2009 from Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant by MARCUS
... With the mission of providing semantic data-aware search, Cazoodle is focusing on the pressing demands of building "vertical," or domain specialized, search services. Cazoodle has general platform technologies for supporting intelligent vertical search for virtually every domain, using which Cazoodle is building services in selected domains...
The Problem or the Solution: Can the Web Be Both? - A Special Report from Web 2.0 Expo
on May 11, 2009 from Web 2.0 The Magazine by David Bunnell
... Next, I checked in at Cazoodle, a vertical search engine far enough under the radar to have not yet been sued for trademark infringement by the slightly larger search engine they wish to compete with. Cazoodle's CTO, Govind Kabra, was kind enough to demonstrated the company's first vertical search website - apartment searching tool for the San Francisco area which at any one time has over 30,000 listing...
Cazoodle Apartment Search Engine Created at University of Illinois
on May 5, 2009 from Real Estate Score Blog by Joseph Ferrara
... Cazoodle apparently is a real search engine, using semantic search, designed to crawl the "deep" web for apartments in the U.S., by automatically collecting apartment listings from thousands of landlord websites and other online sources, who do not pay to get listed. Cazoodle is integrated with Google Street View. It is a free service. It was officially launched April 13, 2009...
A Vois en Video : un Moteur de Recherche Vertical Intelligent Nomme Cazoodle
on April 26, 2009 from Ramenos Blog
Cazoodle tente de s'imposer sur la recherche verticale et semantique (appartements, evenements et shopping). Leur outil me semble vraiment pas mal. Mais rien ne vaut une petite video explicative pour comprendre leur demarche...
Cazoodle Dives into the Deep Web
on April 16, 2009 from Cloudy Times by Markus Klems
Cazoodle, a spin-off from University of Illinois (famous for technology innovation such as Mosaic, Netscape, PayPal and YouTube), is dedicated to exploring both the surface Web and the depths of the Deep Web. Using technology developed in the research group of Prof. Kevin Chang at UIUC, Cazoodle provides vertical search services, i.e. domain-specific search engines (Apartment Search, Event Search, Shopping Search)...
The Leman Report - the Final Day of the Web 2.0 Expo
on April 8, 2009 from AltSearchEngines
... Cazoodle is a nifty little search engine and could develop into something quite powerful. I am most intrigued by the fact that it has emerged out an incubator facility of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Good for Associate Professor Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang. Now that is innovative teaching: providing real-world experience for students that also benefits the wider search community...
Cazoodle: Semantic Search
on April 3, 2009 from Beyond Search by Stephen Arnold
... Developed by Chambana wizards, Cazoodle "looks to create semantic data-aware search for various verticals, starting with apartments, events, and shopping (electronics, for the most part)." Euwyn makes clear that Cazoodle is a vertical search engine; that is, the content focuses on a specific topic such as apartments...
Cazoodle - Semantic Data-aware Search
on April 2, 2009 from EUWYN by Euwyn Poon
... One of Cazoodle's primary verticals is apartments. Given the pain involved in finding an apartment in New York and other big cities, I actually found it quite surprising that there isn't a good solution in the space (beyond CL mashups like HousingMaps, which rely on the CL postings and aren't very comprehensive)...
Video Coverage at Web 2.0 Conference
on April 2, 2009 from KRON4 by Brian Shields
DEMO 09 - Interview with Cazoodle: Future DEMO Presenter?
on March 4, 2009 from TECH~SURF~BLOG by Graeme Thickins
... a DEMO attendee, Govind Kabra, who wanted to give me a look at his startup's new search technology... from the University of Illinois. I told him, with that bloodline, I definitely wanted to hear more... let him tell me what his startup is doing to disrupt the apartment search business...
Entrepreneur Watch: Cazoodle Crawls Vertical Listings
on February 24, 2009 from Kelsey Group Blogs by Peter Krasilovsky
Cazoodle, a new listings-based service, has launched from the incubator at The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (yes, Marc Andreeson's former territory). The site currently crawls for apartment listings and shopping. Additional vertical categories such as events are anticipated, notes Professor Kevin Chang, ...
Website Offers Comprehensive Look at Apartments for Rent
on December 1, 2008 from The News-Gazette.com by Don Dodson
... Kevin Chang has developed a new way to find apartments on the Web, using University of Illinois research into how to conduct "deeper" Web searches. The result is Cazoodle, a Web site that provides comprehensive listings of apartments in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles and other metropolitan areas, including Champaign-Urbana...
Tech Cocktail at Champaign Big Ten Style
On September 25, 2008 from Somewhat Frank by Frank Guber
... Cazoodle - offers "deepen" search on the Web - to access the vast amount of data beyond the reach of current search engines...
CS Professor and Students Take Apartment Hunting High Tech
on September 15, 2008 from ENGINEERING AT ILLINOIS by Jennifer C. LaMontagne
... "Every year, thousands of students, faculty, and residents come to town looking for apartments. They all spend several hours compiling lists of landlord and classified ad sites, sifting through each one to find a new place," said Chang. "Currently, there is no Google-like search site for apartments to make this process easy." Cazoodle Apartment Search, the first product from Cazoodle, solves precisely this problem. It automatically searches all apartment listings, landlord, and review sites at once...
NCSA Teams Up with U.S. Army to Devise Smart Web Crawling System
on May 12, 2008 from NCSA by Erika Strebel
...Also, because the Army expressed an interest in mining the deep Web: the databases, live newsfeeds and data hidden behind form searches that makes a large segment of the data available online. Craig suggested collaboration with Cazoodle, a software company launched by former NCSA Faculty Fellow Kevin Chang, a professor in the University of Illinois Computer Science Department. "Alan immediately realized, 'Why reinvent this? Let's go and see what (Cazoodle) has,'" says Wadsworth. "It was so beautiful, we couldn't ask for more." ...