Realtor.com Virtual Earth Maps “Out”

Inman.com, which is a subscription site, offers an article called “Realtor.com rolls out free blogs for Realtors.” I can’t read it as I don’t have a subscription, but what got me interested was this blurb, found via Google:

New features include a new mapping platform that uses Microsoft’s Virtual Earth and a counter that calculates the number of properties that match the search ...

Now, that’s all well and good, and was actually implemented back in April, but here’s the odd part: searches on site are not mapped. Here’s what I got each time I searched.

It didn’t matter the geography nor the number of results found (at one point I had 200 and maybe that was too many, but 7 weren’t mapped either, nor was 1).

So, could be tech difficulties, of course. But it’s an odd message for that. I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist, but is it possible due to the current lawsuit, Realtor.com has ceased to offer up these maps? Recall that the National Association of Realtors, which runs Realtor.com, is funding defendent Diane Sarkisian in a patent infringement case against REAL llc. The patent is about using a map to find selected properties of interest. I hope I’m wrong and this is just technical difficulties.