A very busy day for me today, so just a very quick post.
The majority of estate agency websites now allow you to search by price, location, number of bedrooms and the like. Some also add options for specific popular features such as allocated parking, sea views or swimming pools.
However, not many allow visitors to search based on their own keywords.
This struck me over the weekend after a conversation I'd been having with a third party web developer who'd been working on an agent's website. It's not something we've previously been doing for our customers either.
The funny thing is, with Google's help, it's such a simple thing to achieve. All you actually need to do is copy the snippet of code from this webpage: http://www.google.com/webelements/customsearch/
Try it:
Not something that everyone will use, sure, but a good option to provide nonetheless.
Martin