Comments on: smells like faux spirit http://www.cheezhead.com/2005/08/18/smells-like-faux-spirit/ Insight and opinion from the world of employment. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:01:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Marketing Headhunter.com http://www.cheezhead.com/2005/08/18/smells-like-faux-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-242 Marketing Headhunter.com Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:29:23 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2005/08/18/smells-like-faux-spirit/#comment-242 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. 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.

]]> By: Marketing Headhunter.com http://www.cheezhead.com/2005/08/18/smells-like-faux-spirit/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Marketing Headhunter.com Fri, 19 Aug 2005 14:17:56 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2005/08/18/smells-like-faux-spirit/#comment-241 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? 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?

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