Google is finally taking a real step into real estate search. To compete with Zillow and other sites that allow users to look for properties for sale, Google has updated http://maps.google.com/help/maps/realestate/ to allow users to use the familiar Google Maps format to find properties. As an avid Google user and proponent of their apps, I am very upset to say that the sources Google is drawing their properties from are not very detailed. I work with an international real estate company, Coldwell Banker, and I could not find one listing from our local company, Coldwell Banker Barbara Sue Seal Properties, in Portland Or. I found links for a few other, not to be named, companies. Out of the four or five reputable, large, and powerful real estate companies in the Northwest only one came up! Google has not brought it's real estate site out to the main public as the newest and best thing, and I think they have a lot of work to do before it is useful. As a broker who searches for property daily I found it confusing and not helpful, unlike every other Google product I use. Hopefully Google will continue to make the site more powerful and user-friendly, because I think my buyers would love to use it.