Redfin just released a new version of their site using Virtual Earth. Some bloggers are covering that, but they miss the best part. This blog post by Bryan of Redfin on how they came to the decision to use Virtual Earth when the compared to Google Maps.
This is very cool that they are writing about the difficulties and challenges of using a third-party service. I wish more companies would write similar posts (I try to do that from time to time) because that can tremendously benefits other startups.
Around September our PageRank on Google was 5, then in October it suddenly dropped to 2. We knew it was strange, but possible. Today our PageRank is zero!!!
Google is penalizing Sampa for something that we didn't do. We never used any tricks or black-hat SEO techniques.
However, Sampa is like a web-hosting company, where we have thousands of websites on the same IP address. All these websites point back to Sampa.com as well. That can be easily perceived as a link farm by Google and other search engines, but it is not.
Now we are not sure how to contact Google about that. Does anyone has any idea how to fix that?
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just released a new version of their site using Virtual Earth. Some bloggers are covering that, but they miss the best part. 
January, 2008