A few days ago we were told that Trovit was selected as one of the 200 finalists for the Red Herring 100 Europe award, and today we can announce that Trovit has finally been selected as one of the 100 winners of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year.

“This year’s impressive list of winners demonstrates Europe’s emergence as a major player in the global technology sector,” said Red Herring Editor-in-Chief, Joel Dreyfuss. “The exceptional accomplishments of European technology companies and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem.”

Red Herring’s lists of top private companies are an important part of the company’s tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Companies like Google, eBay and Skype were spotted in their early days by Red Herring editors, and touted as leaders that would change the way we live and work.
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We have just launched Trovit in our seventh European country, the Netherlands. As in the rest of the countries where we are present, you can search for homes for rent and sale, jobs and cars for sale (or, as they say in Dutch, huizen, vacatures or Auto’s).

As usual when we launch a new country, we still don’t cover all the sources of ads we would like to, but we will have as many as we can as soon as possible. If you know any classifieds site in the Netherlands that you would like to see included in Trovit, just let us know.

Trovit is now present in eleven countries, seven in Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands) and four in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile). We hope we can launch a few more countries in the following months.

Red Herring has selected Trovit as one of the 200 finalists for the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) each year.

The 100 finalists will be chosen from the 200 finalists during the Red Herring 100 Europe 2008 event, which will be held in Malta on April 14-16.

A few days ago we released the advanced search options, which allow you to set additional filters for your search. For example, you can write the city you’re interested in, the number of rooms or bathrooms you need, the maximum mileage you want in the car, etc.

We hope you like these new options, and please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any comments.

AltSearchEngines, a very popular blog about alternative search engines, has just written a post about Trovit, naming it the “search engine of the day“.

In the post, Charles Knight highlights Trovit’s interface, specially the dynamic map we use on our corporate home page. We’re glad you like Trovit, Charles, and thank you very much for the post.

I’m sure most of you know Facebook, one of the largest social networks in the world. And you probably know too, a few weeks ago they allow everyone to create applications that can be used by all Facebook users and shared with friends.

We loved Facebook’s new feature and decided to create a Trovit application for all our Facebook users, which allows you to search for homes, jobs or cars in any of the countries where we’re present (currently six, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Portugal) and in any of the six languages available (is this the first multi-language application for Facebook?)

Also, your last searches on the Trovit application will be shown on your profile in Facebook. This has several advantages, as for example:

- If you are looking for a job in marketing in London, someone in your Facebook network might see that you’re searching for that kind of job and can put you in contact with someone else who is looking for a person with your profile.

- If you are looking for a given make and model of car, someone on your network might see what you’re looking for and know who has it for you.

Take a look at the following screenshot of the Trovit application running in Facebook:

If you’re interested in the Trovit application, just follow the links:

• Add the Trovit application to your Facebook profile
• Join the Trovit group on Facebook

As always, if you have any questions or suggestions please don’t hesitate to contact us.

This week we have launched myTrovit, which allows you to save your favorite searches and ads and access them from any computer. You will also be able to add notes to the ads you have saved: for example, you can write the time and date when you are going to visit one appartment you’re interested in, or how the interview for the job you want went.

When you login in myTrovit, you will also be able to define the number of ads you want to see in each results page and your preference for opening ads in new window or the same window.

If you want to try myTrovit, just go to any of the Trovit sites ( homes in the UK, voitures en France, lavoro a Italia,…) and follow the myTrovit link on the top-right part of the page.

We have just launched Trovit in our sixth country, Portugal. As in the rest of the countries where we are present, you can search for homes for rent and sale, jobs and cars in Portugal (or, as they say in Portuguese, imóveis em venda e arrendamento, ofertas de emprego and automóveis)

As usual when we launch a new country, we still don’t cover all the sources of ads we would like to, but we will have as many as we can as soon as possible. If you know any classifieds site in Portugal that you would like to see included in Trovit, just let us know.

Trovit is now present in six countries in Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal). We hope we can launch a few more countries in the following months.

If you use Google Earth (and if you don’t you should check it out, you’ll be amazed by it) you can now get your Trovit Homes search results in Google Earth.

To get your homes for rent or for sale in Google Earth you only have to type a search on Trovit Homes and on the top-right part of the search results page you will see a new icon with the shape of a blue ball. You just have to click on that icon and Google Earth will open (if you have it installed on your computer, of course) and will show you the homes for rent or for sale that match your search.

Needless to say, if you don’t use Google Earth you can also find your home in Trovit’s maps or use any of the other options we offer, like RSS alerts, email alerts or even instant messenger alerts.

We hope you enjoy this new feature!

This week we have launched our fifth country, Germany, one that we have wanted to launch for a long time. As usual you can look for homes for rent and for sale, jobs and used cars in Germany.

Germany is the country we have launched with the largest number of ads, but it is a large country and we are working hard to increase the number of sources and ads available for our users. Please contact us if you would like to suggest us a source of ads to include in our index.

We now cover the five largest countries in Europe (UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain) but we won’t stop here, we expect to launch in a few more countries as soon as possible.

As always, we would love to hear any suggestion or criticism you might have.