Having worked for a recruitment website, which is essentially an identical service, the answer to that question would be "I'd rather eat glass".
There are two essential problems: firstly, several of the things that I see as faults could be deemed features by the agencies - e.g. listing property without sorting by price might lure me into going for something outside my initial budget simply through an analogue of impulse shopping; secondly, the right way to do something like this - an aggregator site that all the agencies feed with XML or some other buzzword - would require custom interfacing for every single agency, and agencies don't like doing that sort of thing for reasons that escape me.
I think ultimately it boils down to them not being able to see the larger long-term benefits because they're obscured by the fact that OH NO WE'RE COMPETING DIRECTLY ON THE SAME WEBSITE WHICH IS NOTHING LIKE THE SMALL ADS IN A NEWSPAPER or some such bullshit.
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There are two essential problems: firstly, several of the things that I see as faults could be deemed features by the agencies - e.g. listing property without sorting by price might lure me into going for something outside my initial budget simply through an analogue of impulse shopping; secondly, the right way to do something like this - an aggregator site that all the agencies feed with XML or some other buzzword - would require custom interfacing for every single agency, and agencies don't like doing that sort of thing for reasons that escape me.
I think ultimately it boils down to them not being able to see the larger long-term benefits because they're obscured by the fact that OH NO WE'RE COMPETING DIRECTLY ON THE SAME WEBSITE WHICH IS NOTHING LIKE THE SMALL ADS IN A NEWSPAPER or some such bullshit.