Trulia’s just released the Snapshot.

Trulia, is one of the real estate search engines that indexes property listings from various sites and presents them to users.

My first impression on the new Trulia Snapshot was “Wow, this is cool, a map with a slider and bouncy boxes, and it brings the online map up a notch”. But once that initial novelty wore off, I started to wonder how useful this would really be to the customers. One common problem to use a map to show real estate listings is that there would be too many properties crammed into a small space that makes the whole map look too “busy” to actually find anything. I can see the Snapshot is trying to present the property in a better way so it will stand out, but I don’t think the sliding and dragging to locate something really improves the usability that much.

Still, this is a nice looking tool and quite an eye candy. Hopefully it will evolve into something special.

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