Rightmove Places Closed Down

I’ve blogged about Rightmove Places a number of times over the past 18 months

http://www.v1seo.co.uk/11/new-version-of-rightmoveplaces-from-rightmove/

http://www.v1seo.co.uk/11/rightmoveplaces-do-it-again-another-fiasco/

RightmovePlaces A Big Improvement to RightmovePlaces Website

I kept trying to use it but towards the end gave up as it was incredibly bad seeing as it had the backing of Rightmove behind it.

I thought I would go and see if there were any improvements today to find it had gone :(   http://www.rightmoveplaces.co.uk/

A quick look in the Google cache returned this message

“Thanks for helping us with the rightmove places experiment, like all good experiments we’ve learned a lot of useful things and now it’s time to wrap it up…

Some features of rightmove places can be found on Rightmove or on our Rightmove facebook page.”

It’s a shame, but really was inevitable especially as it coincided with facebook timeline and the launch of Google+

Ah well, it was good whilst it lasted, even if rarely used