Archive for December, 2005

‘think like an ant’ follow-up and blog potpourri

December 21st, 2005

1. Talentism has a great follow-up to my recent post on ‘thinking like an ant.’
Click here to read "Our Dear Ant Joel."
2. Today is the last day to vote in Recruiting.com’s "Best of" recruiting-related blogs. Click here and let your voice be heard now.
3. Kelsey Group has an interesting story from yesterday entitled "New Year’s […]

now we’re gtalkin’

December 20th, 2005

Indeed continues to push the envelope of vertical job search integration into the world of general search offerings. And I like it.
If you’re a user of Google Talk instant messenger service, do the following:

Open Google Talk.
Click "Add friend."
Enter "indeedjobs."
Type a message. I chose "Hi."
Then follow the instructions.

Cool stuff. Jobs IM’d to you regularly.
Indeed’s strategy of […]

wanna beat google? think like an ant

December 20th, 2005

We love big.
Cars. Houses. TVs. Boobs.
Whatever it is, super size it.
So it’s no surprise that Google desires to move past its search-only position and dive into e-mail, VoIP, classifieds, free WiFi and a plethora of other things.
Aspirations to be the jungle’s gorilla isn’t a bad thing, unless you’re the former gorilla, of course.
Google, Microsoft and […]

yahoo! update very, very good to craigslist

December 17th, 2005

Yahoo! search has recently gone through an update.
In search circles, this update was nothing earth shattering, but from my seat, the update was very good to Craigslist.
For many city and industry job related searches, Craig has jumped onto Page One of results where there was a failure to rank so well pre-update.
If you’re an industry […]

possible look of google’s integration of vertical search

December 17th, 2005

As Google steadily marches toward heightened integration of verticals within their general Web search, it only makes sense that they start playing with their navigation, hoping to make access to verticals easier.
That said, the image below was captured be an SEO recently:
Seeing the navigation along the left side of the results page, it’s easy to […]

vote or die

December 15th, 2005

If you haven’t done so already, vote for your favorite recruiting-related blogs now.

search, google continue to kick ass and take names

December 14th, 2005

I know, old news: The power of online search continues to grow, and Google continues to dominate search.
Nielsen//NetRatings reports 5.1 billion total search queries in October, which was up 15 percent from just five months earlier.
Of that, Google’s share comes in at 48 percent of search share, or 2.5 billion searches for the month.
Yahoo! came […]

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