| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2006 |
| Founder(s) | Iñaki Ecenarro Raúl Puente Daniel Giménez Enrique Domínguez |
| Headquarters | Barcelona, Spain |
| Slogan |
Need a home? Trovit! Need a car? Trovit! Need a job? Trovit! |
| Website | www.trovit.co.uk |
| Type of site | classifieds |
| Available in | English |
| Launched | 2007 |
| Current status | active |
Trovit is a vertical search engine for classifieds (jobs, cars, real estate). As of November 2008 it is the fifth largest real estate website in Spain based on number of monthly users (comScore [1]).
The name "Trovit" is derived from the Esperanto word for "to find".
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Trovit was founded in late 2006 by Iñaki Ecenarro, Raúl Puente, Daniel Giménez and Enrique Domínguez, and backed by private investors. It launched Trovit Spain as well as Trovit UK on March 30th, 2007. It is currently present in 20 countries.
In December 2008, Trovit was a finalist in the Eurecan, a Caja Navarra venture contest. It was also a winner in the 2008 Red Herring and in the 2008 Eurecan venture contest.
Trovit crawls jobs, cars and real estate classified ads from websites. Users can search the ads, refine the result using filters and set up regular alerts (e-mail and RSS feeds) to be notified about new ads.
The result page for real estate listings integrates Google Maps to geolocate properties.
The Trovit search index is as precise and current as the data provided by its sources (portals and websites), and these depend on the data supplied by agents, recruiters and users. The quality of these results depends on the motivation of those sources to update the information.
In some markets, such as Spain and Italy, the real estate market is based on non-exclusive contracts between sellers and estate agents. These agents try to avoid revealing the precise information about the property when they publish it on the Internet. In this case, Trovit cannot geolocate the properties precisely on the map.
In the job market the situation is very different, and in markets such as the UK the fragmentation is significant. Trovit can index thousands of ads using its duplicate control system.
The car market is linked to large internet directories and the access to dealers, the final sellers of the product, is very complicated.