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Happy, happy day, kiddies! (Well, happy depending on who you are, anyway.)
The long-awaited Google classifieds offering is now live at base.google.com.
Yes, it includes free job listings. So post ‘em today before your competition does.
The blogosphere will be writing on this launch for weeks (me included), so I’ll be brief to give myself time to test drive it and give a more thorough review to my loyal readers in the days ahead.
A quick glance reveals that CareerBuilder content is part of the jobs content, with Monster and HotJobs absent.
It’s an exciting day for online recruitment. Ready or not, heeere’s Google Base and its free job listings.
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November 16th, 2005 at 11:58 am
Very cool, my favorite feature is the bulk upload – if employers can export all of their jobs into the appropriate format, they could literally post them all in one step and have all of their opportunities live on Google!
November 16th, 2005 at 12:11 pm
joel -
as i’m sure you’re aware, America’s Job Bank and several other sites have allowed free job listings for quite some time… i don’t think that’s the news angle here.
more interesting will be 1) whether they can eat into long-tail market share from craigslist / ebay / others, and 2) will they allow others to do anything with the data — crawl it, index it, build apps on top of it, mash it up, use it as a floor wax or dessert topping, etc.
as their product manager titled the blog post announcement, seems like they’re only on first base right now. heavy petting is probably still a bit further off, so you might want to ease up on the heavy breathing ;)
kisses,
- dave mcclure
http://www.SimplyHired.com