Why does realtor.com not appear in results for web searches for houses for sale? It used to be the second option, right behind Zillow, but for the last month or so it flat out does not appear on any page of results from a Brave search.
Using Brave Browser, and using Brave Search - with a search operator:
site:realtor.com
I am a bit surprised to get the following result:
In contrast, using DuckDuckGo Search Engine, and search criteria:
house sales "realtor.com"
. . . returns results from Realtor.com at the top of the list.
Realtor.com is using Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) DNS servers.
WMtips.com - https://www.wmtips.com/tools/info/realtor.com
Result:
What is the Web Discovery Project?
https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discovery-Project
EXCERPT:
The Web Discovery Project allows you to contribute anonymous, generalized data.
The Web Discovery Project is designed to prevent us from associating this data with you. This means there’s no data for Brave to sell to advertisers, or lose to theft or hacking, allowing us to promise through technology rather than words.
Brave’s Web Discovery Project is opt-in only, and totally transparent.