Meta-Real Estate + PacMan Game Theory

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Originally uploaded by Bunny Lady.

Meta-shopping has been around forever : Most have been bought over the last year by ebay or yahoo etc. There's been some meta-travel action (mobissimo, kayak) Some of the search crew went to meta-classifieds (oodle) meta-jobs bubbled away big time (workzoo - acquired by jobster, simplyhired - high quality valley round, indeed - union square/NYT invested) and now meta-real estate (trulia - why visit 100,000 real estate sites) Everyone can guess what is next - cars. Then someone in one vertical will buy another vertical. The portals will swallow the leaders. Then the portals (as Yahoo is doing with HotJobs vs Careerbuilder/Monster + Google testing job search results) will compete against the leading classifieds players by going direct to advertisers with a performance marketing not fixed fee pitch (ie CPA, CPC etc) as well as additional tools (eg filtering tools for job applicants, sale boards outside your house, a car wash maybe ;) Oh, and of course the internationalisation of this meta-vertical-search-space hasnt happened. (with the trend and technology being very Californian based - except for Ziggy the Mascot Cat for South Africa, England, US, Workzoo, Jobster !!) Anyway, Im definitely throwing my scraping vertical - classifieds search at a local city level in Australia hand in the ring.... Now can someone give me the technology to implement please.