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"We are completely open to working with any company," said Foster, when asked why major players such as Rightmove have not been signed up at launch. Estate agents and online property companies will not be charged to be partners. Google, which said that it has several hundreds of thousands of properties lined up for the launch today, will make money from running ads above and below search results. "We want to operate in the online space in the same way we do in every other part of our business … clearly traffic shows Google is a major portal for the average customer so this deal takes us to where customers are already operating and looking". "With tens of thousands of properties available the most important thing for us is to showcase to the widest audience in most efficient way," said Grenville Turner, group chief executive of Countrywide. Deals have also been struck with online-only players including Zoopla, which acquired Property Finder from News International and from Guardian Media Group last year, Trinity Mirror's Zoomf and SmartNewHomes, Vebra, Property Pal and Ezylet. Google has signed up UK partners including Countrywide, the UK's largest estate agency with a portfolio including Bairstow Eves, Bridgfords and Sotherby's Inernational, and Spicer Haart. We know that many UK home buyers are already using Google Maps in their house-hunting, and by adding property listings to the map we're putting everything together for them in one place." "We want Google Maps to be a map that contains all of the world's information. "About half of the queries on Google have a geographic component," said Andrew Foster, product manager at Google. The new property finder service, which goes live today, will allow home buyers and renters to search for properties by a city or location and drill down by specifics such as price, type and numbers of bedrooms and bathrooms. Google UK has set its sights on cashing in on the property market by beefing up Google Maps with new house-hunting services from partners including real estate agent giant Countrywide, Zoopla and Trinity Mirror.