What's next, Google Landlord?

Google may be adding another attractive member to its conga line of new initiatives: a commercial real estate service. The search company has approached CoStar Group, the nations largest provider of commercial real estate data, apparently in hopes of integrating its service into Google Earth, the company's interactive satellite mapping service. "Google approached us some number of months ago wanting to work on some initiatives with us, and we have licensed some content to Google already," Andrew Florance, chief executive officer of CoStar Group told the Mercury News. "We're building the capability of viewing our commercial real estate inventory inside of a Google Earth or inside of several different projects.

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