Thu, Aug 18, 2005
Remember the ’90s when Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden hit it big?
Then remember a bunch of lame, knock-off grunge bands magically appearing, hoping to cash in on the trend?
Meet the vertical job search industry’s Spin Doctors:
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August 19th, 2005 at 7:17 am
Well, I guess you can’t blame them for trying — although their technology doesn’t seem to work very well. I entered the query “internet marketing” (without the quotes) and the result looked like this: http://www.reliablegrowth.com/public/cheesman1.jpg … an insurance sales job with little relevance to the internet -OR- marketing.
Notice too that the top job result was from Monster, which I thought was odd. See http://www.reliablegrowth.com/public/cheesman2.jpg
I thought Monster was still undecided about allowing their jobs to be spidered by vertical search engines. Did I miss something?
August 19th, 2005 at 7:29 am
And another thing: Notice on my first image (”cheesman1.jpg”) that my search result was supposed to be for Alaska (”AK”) — because by not selecting a state in the drop down menu, the default state was Alaska. BUT, the search result actually retrieved from Monster (”cheesman2.jpg”) was a posting for Huntsville, AL, 35801.
So, wrong job — wrong place.