A slew of new services have been launched at online real estate broker Redfin including text matching for misspelled searches and upgraded neighborhood statistics.

Several new players are trying to compete with Schibsted’s online classified market leader Finn.no in Norway.

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News Corp. has reportedly decided not to invest further in the REA Group after being offered some of the 13.5 million shares which were sold yesterday by the Ray White Group.

Traffic to the Zillow.com Web site is up 67 percent from last year, to an average of 8.3 million unique visitors per month in the first six months of 2009, the company announced.

Zoopla.co.uk, which bills itself as the U.K.’s fifth-most popular real estate classifieds site, has announced that it has entered into a heads of agreement with the REA Group and News International Limited for the purchase of their jointly owned U.K. operations, including the popular property portal PropertyFinder.

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YouTube features new call to action links available on advertiser video to track conversions.