How Real Estate Listing Sites Create Better Experience With Visual Search

In today's digital world, real estate shopping has moved almost exclusively online. Real estate listing portals, such as Zillow or Trulia, have helped usher in the era of visual search as the future of buying or selling your home online. They've gotten so popular in fact, that many of the top real estate portals are managing over one million new images per day as sellers and realtors want to provide the best presentation of their home and users demand to see every nook and cranny before actually visiting the property. In order to keep pace with the onslaught of new property listings and unprecedented traffic from potential home buyers, real estate portals have been desperately looking for solutions to manage their visual assets – ie: photos and videos of properties uploaded by users. You have to realize that along with the benefits of user-generated content (ie: access to millions upon millions of uploaded photos for virtual property tours), real estate portals are faced with the unmanageable task of collecting, organizing and displaying that content in an efficient and easy to navigate manner. First, as a real estate portal, how will you go about sorting through all of those images?