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John Battelle, a well-known journalist and pundit in the search engine arena recently commented about Simply Hired via a forum he attended.
Battelle says:
"[The most interesting comment of the evening] came from Simply Hired CEO, Gauta Godhwani, when I asked him if he
feared Google. ‘Google does search very well, but we have yet to see
Google do applications well,’ was his reply."
(Battelle refutes this point a bit, citing Gmail, others.)
Then he added this quote from Godhwani:
"Finding a job takes a few weeks or months, doing research and using
the power of referrals. You can’t do it on a basic search engine, so we
are complementary to search.’ As Godhwani said this, I was thinking to
myself – ‘Well, as soon as there is an economic reason to do it, Google
will do it, and then what?’
"By then, I sense, Simply Hired (and all the other vertical
search engines on the panel) hope to be so far along that the only
logical move would be an acquisition, or direct competition in which
the upstart actually has a chance of winning. It’s how it’s been for
ages in this industry."
Interesting insights from someone outside the online recruitment arena but quite knowledgeable about search. Click here to read the entire story.
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