Not too long ago we rolled out the functionality to filter search results to see ads with reduced prices. After seeing how popular this feature has been, we’d like to present a new functionality: a price evolution graph. This allows you to see ads’ price evolution. This is especially relevant when you have to negotiate a sale price for a car or a home.

To see the price evolution graph, click on the More option which appears with each ad. The graph will only appear for the ads whose price has been modified at least twice.

Here’s an example so you can see exactly how this shows up on Trovit:

At Trovit we’re always aiming to offer you more content, of a higher quality. At the moment, we have over 2500 sources for classified ads. This allows us to be the largest classifieds ads site in Europe. However, you’ve surely found that one of the sites included in Trovit isn’t helping in your search: maybe because the content isn’t useful or because you don’t like its design. For these cases, we’ve created a new functionality, giving you the option to block ad sources from your search results.

To activate this tool, you must click on the X that appears next to the name of the source you wish to remove from results. You can see this clearly in the following example:

After clicking on the X, a window appears to explain how, if you reconsider, you can include this source in your search results again. We hope you find this option useful, and, as always, we’ll gladly welcome your comments and suggestions.

Because of the current economic crisis, many sellers have reduced the prices of the property or cars for sale. In order to make it possible for our users to detect these reductions, we’ve created a new functionality: under the price filter, we’ve added a check box with the number of ads with reduced prices. If it’s selected, only ads with lowered prices will be visible.

Here are a couple searches for cars and homes at great prices, which sellers are very interested in getting sold:
- Mercedes (1,385 reduced ads)
- London (5,085 reduced ads)

To see the ads with price reductions, click on the check box under the price filter.

Trovit seeks to make its product better every day, if you have any suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

comScore, one of the global leaders in measuring traffic on the Internet, has released the first report of activity in the Spanish online real estate category in September 2008, based on data from the comScore Media Metrix audience measurement service.

According to the report, three million Spanish Internet users visited a site in the real estate site category, representing a five percent increase versus year ago. 396,000 of them visited Trovit Casas, our search engine for homes in Spain, which becomes the fourth real estate website in Spain after Fotocasa, Grupo Facilísimo and Idealista.

After being recognised by Nielsen as the second fastest growing website in the UK, we’re proud to be recognised by comScore as one of the most important real estate websites in Spain.

Google is quietly adding more and more cities to their Streetview product and we just integrated Streetview in our search engine in France and Spain. We think being able to look at the buildings and the surroundings can be a very interesting feature for our users who are looking for a new house.

Since a few hours ago, you can already navigate the streets of Madrid, Barcelona, Sevilla and Valencia in Spain, and Paris, Lyon, Lille, Toulouse in France. We hope Google will shortly add more cities to Streetview and they will automatically show in Trovit.

After a few weeks ago Nielsen Ratings named Trovit as the second fastest growing website in the UK, we are happy to announce that Trovit has continued growing and during the month of August we have reached a very important milestone: more than ten million unique users (according to Google Analytics).

We are very proud that more than ten million people have used Trovit during August and we hope they have found it useful and keep using it (it looks like that, because we are seeing a spectacular growth rate during September)

But this is only the beginning, and we are working hard to make Trovit as useful, powerful and easy to use as we can; we’re currently working on new features that we are sure you will love.

As always, if you are one of those ten million users and you have any comment for us we would love know what you think about Trovit.

According to Nielsen Online, Trovit thas been the second fastest growing website in the UK during the last twelve months, going from 30,000 users in June last year to 766,000 in June this year.

Alex Burmaster, internet analyst for Nielsen Online, presented his “Saving Money a Strong Theme Amongst UKs Fastest Growing Websites” report and said that “Sites tapping into consumer concerns about the economy, giving them the opportunity to save money, dominate the fastest growing list.”

Links | BrandRepublic, New Media Age, Marketing Week, netimperative

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.