In many prewar buildings, the top floor was not always prized space, instead relegated to the superintendent's apartment or servants' quarters.
Although only specialised sites will be able to bid, they argue that competition for prized space will force them to pay most of their profit to Google so that Google scoops the pool wherever people click.
Since search engines relied on copy to understand the context of a given page, marketers around the world quickly embarked on a quest for massive quantities of worthless content – anything they could get their hands on to gain that prized space at the top of search results.
Sao Paulo is a thoroughly unequal city that has always prized private spaces over the public, and as a rule, anyone who can afford a car prefers to be in one.
Aging C-5's have broken down along the route clogging prized ramp space and threatening to jam up flights stacked in the skies behind them.
The outdoor retailer -- best known for stuffing mailboxes with catalogues -- chose a prized corner space in the upscale Promenade at Sagemore in the Marlton section of Evesham Township -- what its developer, Kravco Corp., calls a style center, for only its fourth outlet in the company's 90-year history.
"What we finally have here, after 40 years of waiting, is the beginning of the personal space flight revolution," said the man behind the prize, space enthusiast Peter Diamandis.
The funding was key to accelerating their global expansion, but for the Brainly team, breaking into the U.S. market, where the likes of Answers.com and Quora were taking up the prized social learning space, sent the team on a sharp learning curve of their own.
This act represented a practical safeguard against their car being vandalised, but also seemed to denote prized ownership of space and possessions.
Set to go up for auction on 16 February with a guide price of £180,000 – the cost of a family home in many parts of the country – this single-storey garage offers 13.5sq m (146sq ft) of off-street parking space, a highly prized commodity in this part of town.
