Nestoria Blog

Today we present a bit of Friday fun.

Like many websites, we closely monitor which terms and queries people are using in general web search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN to reach Nestoria. Typically these queries are quite standard - for example “homes for sale near Stoke on Trent”. But sometimes we do see some odd and interesting surprises. We thought we’d share a few with you today:

• “why would people move to falconwood?” We say, why not? Falconwood is a nice place to live near Eltham, South East London. We at Nestoria are particularly fond of the Eltham Palace, an amazing residence of Stephen and Virginia Courtauld from the 1930’s. Are you in the market for something nearby? You may start your search by considering Eltham houses to buy.
• “how to find a decent property to rent in london” This is a tough question for a search engine to answer. It’s very hard to know what is meant by ‘decent’. Perhaps a three bedroom flat in a not outrageously expensive area of London like Fulham, or a house in one of the commuter paradises like Harpenden?
• “houses for sale 5,000″If ever there was a challenge to offer relevant results to our users, this is one. Can “any” property search engine in the UK find houses for sale for less than five thousand sterling? We try our best, but there are limits. We do however have hundreds of thousands of houses for sale across the UK.

In general we find that our users set the bar very high indeed. A recent Nestoria user searching for “houses for sale in chelsea” ended up filtering down to properties in Chelsea for not more than 125,000. And we found one for him (or her), only it was a garage. Our technology may seem like magic, but not even we can accomplish the impossible task of finding a cheap home in Chelsea.

Have a good weekend.