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MLSs can require brokers to block search engines

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The National Association of Realtors is hoping to smooth over a flap that erupted when it backed a local Realtor board's decision to force one of its brokers to prevent search engines like Google from indexing other brokers' for-sale listings.

Many real estate brokers display not only their own listings on their Web sites, but those of other members of their multiple listings service (MLS) through Internet Data Exchange (IDX) reciprocity agreements.

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