Archive | July, 2005
google and firefox, sittin’ in a tree …
The love affair between Google and Firefox continues. Anyone else notice the "New! Google Toolbar for Firefox" text on Google’s homepage currently? It’s no small feat to reside on homepage real estate at Google. They are very selective with that page’s content, always aware of keeping it simple. But with Microsoft Longhorn coming soon to a desktop [...]
Continue reading...classified intelligence report on yahoo!’s hotjobs entering vertical search space
13. July 2005
Classified Intelligence Report’s John Zappe has written a nice piece on Yahoo!’s HotJobs getting into the vertical job search arena [PDF removed]. I love Bill Warren’s quote: "This is the beginning of the end for Monster and CareerBuilder … This is really Monster’s worst fear." Warren, an online recruitment pioneer going back to Online Career Center (OCC), [...]
Continue reading...who reads this stuff, anyway?
13. July 2005
If you’ve seen Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, you might remember the line, "The problem with Scotland is that it’s full of Scots," or something like that. When writing about online recruitment topics, I sometimes think, "The problem with the blogosphere is that it’s full of bloggers." In other words, I wonder how many actual recruiters read recruiting blogs. [...]
Continue reading...1 in 4 americans search web for job info
13. July 2005
Harris Interactive recently released a study hoping to explain the intricacies of how Americans use Internet search. The article said, "Surprisingly few people researching specific topics are looking for job or career information (28%)." Few people? It’s all relative, I suppose. Personally, I think 1-in-4 people is pretty respectable, particularly considering that major search engines today are pretty [...]
Continue reading...google playing with search enhancement
12. July 2005
SEO circles are buzzing about a current test functionality Google is playing with on a very limited basis. See below: Click here for large version From the looks of it, Google is providing links to sub-pages from a Web site via its search results. In terms of online recruitment, think about this: First, it obviously helps job seekers get [...]
Continue reading...vertical job search introduces dawn of new search optimization era
11. July 2005
When you do a search on Google, or any major search engine, the results are served to you by the most relevant to the least relevant. Google, by anyone’s estimation but Bill Gates and a few Yahooligans, has done the best job of serving the most relevant search results. When you do a search on Monster, [...]
Continue reading...more on yahoo!’s entry into vertical job search
6. July 2005
The occurrence of Yahoo! providing vertical job search via HotJobs is quite possibly, in my opinion, the most significant news to come along in the online recruitment space in a very long time. What Yahoo! has said with this move is: The job board model as we know it today doesn’t work. Let me repeat that, [...]
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- cheezhead sells out (25)
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