{"id":293512,"date":"2010-02-08T07:06:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T12:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/?p=16603"},"modified":"2010-02-08T07:06:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T12:06:39","slug":"happy-birthday-zillow-we-turn-4-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/293512","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Zillow! We Turn 4 Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/02\/zillow-birthday-cake2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/02\/zillow-birthday-cake2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a>Four years ago today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/\">Zillow.com<\/a> was born as a beta site. When we launched, we had 75 employees who spent many previous months building a living, breathing database that launched 40 million Zestimate\u00ae home values.<\/p>\n<p>It was a revolutionary moment that kind of turned real estate on its head. A value on your home online for all to see?\u00a0 While we fully state that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/wikipages\/What-is-a-Zestimate\/\">Zestimate is just a starting point<\/a>, it was a big move to make real estate data available about all homes &#8212; yours and your neighbors&#8217; &#8212; open and online for everyone to see.\u00a0People were eager to get their hands on it and we were happy to provide it.<\/p>\n<p>But, that was just the beginning.\u00a0 Zillow now offers a wide variety of real estate products:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search millions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homes\/\">homes for sale<\/a>, homes for rent and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/make-me-move\/\">Make Me Move\u00ae homes<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Post a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/real-estate-listings\/\">home for sale<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/rentals\/\">post a home for rent<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Shop anonymously online for a customized mortgage quote using Zillow&#8217;s revolutionary borrower-focused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/mortgage\/\">Zillow Mortgage Marketplace<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ask questions and\u00a0share answers on any real estate topic through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/advice\/\">Zillow Advice<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find real estate info and data on-the-go through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/zillow-iphone-app-1-real-estate-app-in-first-day\/2009\/04\/30\/\">#1 real estate app for the iPhone<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/iphone\/\">Zillow iPhone App<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Browse home improvement ideas with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/home-improvement-dueling-digs\/\">Dueling Digs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find a local agent, lender or real estate professional using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/directory\/\">Zillow Directory<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Search <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/local-info\/\">local data <\/a>for hundreds of cities and thousands of neighborhoods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And no birthday post is complete without some cool stats that don&#8217;t make our usual lineup of <a href=\"http:\/\/zillow.mediaroom.com\/index.php?s=175\">Zillow stats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zillow by the Numbers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>96,013,458 <\/strong>&#8211; Number of U.S. homes with data\u00a0on Zillow today<\/p>\n<p><strong>70,176,310<\/strong> &#8212; Number of individual homes viewed at least once on Zillow since launch\u00a0(that&#8217;s 75% of all homes in the country &#8212; wow!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/iphone\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/02\/iphoneforblogpost.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"56\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><strong>21,117,128<\/strong> &#8212; Number of homes on Zillow viewed through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/iphone\/\">Zillow iPhone App<\/a> (from April 28, 2009 through Feb. 6, 2010).<\/p>\n<p><strong>17,860,700<\/strong> &#8212; Homes on Zillow with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/wikipages\/Edit-Your-Home-Facts\/\">edited home facts<\/a>, by owners or agents<\/p>\n<p><strong>11,527,882<\/strong> &#8212; Custom loan quotes since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/mortgage\/\">Zillow Mortgage Marketplace<\/a> launched<\/p>\n<p><strong>3,969,424 <\/strong>&#8211; Total <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homes\/for_sale\/\">homes for sale<\/a> today (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/make-me-move\">Make Me Move<\/a> homes)<\/p>\n<p><strong>1,333,758 <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/directory\/real-estate-agents\/\">Agents\u00a0with a profile on\u00a0Zillow<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>923,935 &#8212; <\/strong>Number of Zillow iPhone App downloads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>681,572<\/strong> &#8212; Consumer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zillow.com\/mortgage\/CreateMortgageLoanRequest.htm?lpt=Purchase&amp;amt=Estimated+purchase+price&amp;zc=98104&amp;dtid=\">loan requests<\/a> since Zillow Mortgage Marketplace launched (April, 2008)<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/wikipages\/Edit-Your-Home-Facts\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>30<\/strong> &#8212; Zillow babies born to current employees, spouses or former employees (&#8230;and 11 more are coming!)<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/02\/frankie-j1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-17455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/02\/frankie-j1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>4.034 <\/strong>\u2013- Number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-a-terabyte.htm\">terabytes<\/a> it takes to process Zillow\u2019s 70+ million Zestimates and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/local-info\/\">Zillow Home Value Indices<\/a>, which are updated every single night!<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2008\/09\/microsoft-exec\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17324\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zillow.com\/blog\/files\/2010\/02\/space-guy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a><strong>1<\/strong> &#8212; Number of times CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2008\/09\/microsoft-exec\/\">Rich Barton talked to someone in space<\/a> from work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Big Thanks to YOU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, we couldn&#8217;t have gotten to where we are without you &#8212; homeowners, home buyers, home sellers, property managers, renters, real estate agents, brokers, lenders, borrowers, appraisers, stagers, and many other real estate professionals who use Zillow. Without you, we wouldn&#8217;t have the 8+ million unique users we attract a month. So, a <strong>big thanks<\/strong> to you for using Zillow for your real estate needs. THANK YOU!<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?a=q7ryd_3b4BE:OcrtZlOFWiA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?a=q7ryd_3b4BE:OcrtZlOFWiA:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ZillowBlog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago today, Zillow.com was born as a beta site. When we launched, we had 75 employees who spent many previous months building a living, breathing database that launched 40 million Zestimate\u00ae home values. It was a revolutionary moment that kind of turned real estate on its head. 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