Google Maps On REA Sites Worldwide
Now that Google Australia is seeking growth through the offered of Google Maps. And presently one firm REA Group is using the technology of Google Maps rendered to show its customer a real estate site, with the options of zoom in and satellite views, according to Google Australia. In fact, the REA Group is already one of the largest users of Google Maps worldwide, delivering over 1.4 billion page views of Google Maps over the past 12 months on its real estate Websites in Australia and New Zealand. Moreover, under the new license, Google Maps can be found on its Websites in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Luxembourg and the United Kingdom. “Experience has shown the visitors to our sites in Australia and New Zealand love using Google Maps to plot properties. By adding Google Maps to our sites in other countries, we will clearly enhance the user experience,” said Simon Baker, CEO and Managing Director of the REA Group, according to REA’s press release.
Apparently, Google’s mapping capabilities in internal Websites can be a marvelous tool, enabling potential customers to make the purchasing decisions as well as magnify the value of the internal data of a firm.

November 11th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
Dave from the REA Group here.
Thanks for writing about our deal with Google. I look forward to reading more great tech news on tagedge…
All best.