A couple of us went to the Seattle Home Show last week to take a pulse on the latest happenings in home ownership. We went in with few expectations, but we never would have thought that the show would resemble a whirlpool convention. Amid the countertop and deck manufacturers were Jacuzzis and […]

When you commit to working at a startup, you sign up for long hours, often lower pay and the possibility of being shoehorned into cramped working conditions. At Zillow, we currently have 75 folks working in a space suited for 45. Let’s put it this way: You get to know each other (and everyone’s smelly […]

This morning I went to a panel discussion here in Seattle about corporate blogging and how businesses can use blogs as a conduit for two-way conversations with their customers.  Among the panelists were Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, co-authors of Naked Conversations - How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk With Their Customers.  It […]

There is a hurdle, of sorts, that we throw up in front of some information on home details pages and it’s worth making the leap since it contains a vault of information. When you see the swirly numbers in a little box and we ask you to re-type what you see, it’s our way […]

Since much of the feedback so far has been in the area of data and Zestimate accuracy, we thought it couldn’t hurt to give a little overview of the My Zestimator tool.  Lloyd already discussed it a bit in his earlier post,  but here’s more detail for those of you who might be encountering inaccurate […]

If anyone’s wondering what life’s been like around here during launch week, here’s one small anecdote that says it all…
When I went into our storage closet yesterday to grab some supplies, I flipped on the light switch and almost jumped out of my shoes – up popped Jerome, our senior system administrator, who was napping […]

It’s Day 2 and already there’s been a lot of chatter on blogs about what we’re doing and how Zestimates stack up to people’s expectations. We’ve received lots of feedback, too. On the first day we received over a thousand emails. So, in the spirit of transparency, we want to share what people had to […]

We’ve had a number of our users ask why we are not currently supporting the Safari browser on OS X. Basically we are using some JavaScript features that Safari doesn’t currently support. As an Apple user I thought those of you using Safari would find this post informative.
Please try using our site with Firefox (it’s […]

We hear some folks are still seeing site outage messages on Zillow.com. I’m told if you hit CTRL + F5, it will clear your cache and you will get access to the site again. Again, our apologies for this bumpiness and thanks for your patience!

We’ve had a busy morning, but it looks like we’re out of the woods! Feel free to kick the tires and let us know if you run into any problems.
Thanks for hanging in there with us. There might be a few more bumps along the way, but we appreciate your patience.

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