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6<title>About Walk Score</title>
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194        <li class='current-page'>About</li><li><a href='/press/'>Press</a></li><li><a href='/jobs/'>Jobs</a></li><li><a href='/contact-us.php'>Contact Us</a></li><li><a href='/directions.shtml'>Directions</a></li>
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197      <h1>About Walk Score </h1>
198      <h5>Our Mission </h5>
199      <p>Walk Score's mission is to promote walkable neighborhoods. Walkable neighborhoods are one of the simplest and best solutions for the environment, our health, and our economy.</p>
200      <p><img src="//cdn2.walk.sc/2/images/more-less.gif" alt="more: biking, walking, enjoying nature and less: traffic jams" border="0" style="margin-top:10px;" /></p>
201      <h5>Our Vision</h5>
202      <p>Our vision is for every property listing to read: <strong>Beds: 3 Baths: 2 Walk Score: 84</strong>. We want to make it easy for people to evaluate walkability and transportation when choosing where to live.</p>
203      <h5>Our Products </h5>
204      <p>In addition to <a href="http://www.walkscore.com/">www.walkscore.com</a>, we provide <a href="/professional/">Walk Score Professional</a>, which makes it easy to integrate Walk Score into other websites. We also provide <a href="/professional/research.php">Walk Score data</a> to researchers. We have multiple patents pending on our scoring and search technologies.</p>
205      <h5>Our Impact</h5>
206      <p>We show over 20 million scores every day and over 30,000 sites use Walk Score services. Walk Score has been featured in hundreds of newspaper articles and TV segments.</p>
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208        <p class="text-attribution smallfont" style="padding-bottom:0;"><a href="/watch" target="_blank">Real Time Map of Scores Being Served</a></p>
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210      <p>Walk Score is now a part of <a href="http://www.redfin.com">Redfin</a> and was originally incubated at  <a href="http://frontseat.org/" target="_blank">Front Seat</a>.</p>
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255entryHTML[0]="<img src='//cdn2.walk.sc/2/images/news/nytimes.jpg' width='250' height='46' border='0' /></a><p><a href='/press-room.shtml'>&#8220;Walk Score's popularity may be a sign that walking is making a comeback, fueled by both rising gas prices and widening waistlines.&#8221;</a></p>";
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