Comments on: MIBOR Blocks Change, NAR Committee Agrees- Politics Beats Agents In DC

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Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:14:05 +0000

[...] board of REALTORs (MIBOR) was up in arms about this practice and received the blessing from NAR to go after one of their own members to prevent listings from being indexed by Google in the Spring of 2009. A recent IDX policy change [...]

By: Jacci

Jacci — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:32:24 +0000

And yet we have another big mess!

By: BawldGuy

BawldGuy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:41:37 +0000

Thanks Bob.

By: Bob Wilson

Bob Wilson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:54:45 +0000

Jeff, indexing the idx page is fine. An example of not protecting the data would be an RSS feed of IDX listings where I could scrape it and repurpose the listing data on a 3rd party site. A few IDX companies do this now and it violates this principle.

By: Matt Stigliano

Matt Stigliano — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:51:17 +0000

Jay – Thanks for keeping us up to date on this – both here and on Twitter (and I suspect at some point a blog post of your own). As you know, this issue and what happened here on AgentGenius in regards to it helped me decide to get up off my butt and become a part of things in terms of NAR, TAR, and SABOR. I thank you and Paula both for that. I’m glad NAR chose to send you to the MLS committee and you were able to do what everyone had hoped – provide a perspective that clearly understood the ramifications of the MIBOR situation and what it would mean to agents in their everyday work.

And to the BOD and the Committee – thanks. You did the right thing.

By: BawldGuy

BawldGuy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:49:15 +0000

Jay — Would you please translate the ‘new’ language for me please?

Does it mean the agent won’t be able to allow site visitors to use IDX? What are the real meanings to this new language, in your opinion? Thanks

By: Jay Thompson

Jay Thompson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:39:28 +0000

For those still following this saga (and honestly, you should be) just moments ago the NAR’s Board of Directors just passed, without debate, changes in the MLS policy that allows indexing of IDX listings:

Old Language:

2. Participants must protect IDX information from misappropriation by employing reasonable efforts to monitor and prevent “scraping” or other unauthorized accessing, reproduction or use of the MLS database.

New Language:

MLS participants may not use IDX-provided listings for any purpose other than display on their websites. This does not require participants to prevent indexing of IDX listings by recognized search engines.