A Field Trial of Five Tracer-Detail Families Across a Real-Estate Franchise's Live Listings, and Which Variants Survived a Rival Portal's Rewrite
A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement plants one of five fabricated tracer-detail families into 1,860 live listings across a nineteen-branch real-estate franchise, then tracks which variants survive being scraped and rewritten by three rival aggregator portals across a twenty-week field trial. Recovery ranges from 71% for a syntactic tracer to 24% for a fabricated proximity claim, a spread the paper traces chiefly to each portal's own listing-normalisation conventions rather than deliberate evasion.
| Authors | Sten Okwuosa, Torun Ezeigwe |
|---|---|
| School | School of Continuous Improvement |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.9eaqa8 |
| Pages | 6 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_9eaqa8,
author = {Sten Okwuosa and Torun Ezeigwe},
title = {Salting the Listing: A Field Trial of Five Tracer-Detail Families Across a Real-Estate Franchise's Live Listings, and Which Variants Survived a Rival Portal's Rewrite},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.9eaqa8},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-real-estate-franchise-9eaqa8/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}