Trovit
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| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
Type of site | classifieds |
| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
| Founder(s) | Iñaki Ecenarro Raúl Puente Daniel Giménez Enrique Domínguez |
| URL | www.trovit.co.uk www.trovit.com |
| Launched | 2007 |
| Current status | active |
Trovit is a vertical search engine for classifieds (real estate, jobs, cars and products). As of March 2012, it is the leading search engine for classified ads in Europe and Latin America.[2] On 2012, Trovit reached 38 countries worldwide, being available in 13 languages[3] and receiving more than 30 million unique visitors every month.
The name "Trovit" is derived from trovit′, the Esperanto root for "found".
Company
Trovit was founded in late 2006 by Iñaki Ecenarro, Raúl Puente, Daniel Giménez and Enrique Domínguez, and backed by private investors].[4] It launched Trovit Spain as well as Trovit UK on March 30, 2007 and in 2012 was present 38 countries worldwide.[5]
Website
Trovit crawls real estate, cars and jobs classified ads from websites. Users can search the ads, refine the result using filters and set up regular alerts (e-mail and RSS feeds) to be notified about new ads.
The result page for real estate listings integrates Google Maps to geolocate properties.
Data
- 30 million unique users - December 2012
- 100 million ads - December 2012
- 37 countries - March 2012
- 4 search engine verticals (jobs, cars, real estate, products)
Criticism
The Trovit search index is as precise and current as the data provided by its sources (portals and websites), and these depend on the data supplied by agents, recruiters and users. The quality of these results depends on the motivation of those sources to update the information.
In some markets, such as Spain and Italy, the real estate market is based on non-exclusive contracts between sellers and estate agents. These agents try to avoid revealing the precise information about the property when they publish it on the Internet. In this case, Trovit cannot geolocate the properties precisely on the map.
In the job market the situation is very different, and in markets such as the UK the fragmentation is significant. Trovit can index thousands of ads using its duplicate control system.
The car market is linked to large internet directories and the access to dealers, the final sellers of the product, is very complicated.
See also
References
- ^ "Trovit.co.uk Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
- ^ Property Portal Watch. "Trovit Spreads its wings into 5 new markets" www.propertyportalwatch.com 21 March 2012
- ^ Blog About Trovit. "Trovit launches in five new countries" about.trovit.com 20 March 2012
- ^ Martin, Javier. "ContactoSocial MediaPublicidad Anunciada la inversión en el buscador vertical Trovit" loogic.com 27 December 2007
- ^ Top Language Jobs. "Industry Spotlight Trovit" blog.toplanguagejobs.com May 2012