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Archive | July, 2006

google base to expire jobs after 7 days

14. July 2006

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In an attempt to keep content “as fresh as possible,” Google Base is now putting a 7 day limit on all job postings, either uploaded or added manually to their data pool. Expiration dates vary per category. Checkout the official blog for details. Considering the high levels of spam and dead pages that are polluting Base, [...]

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united states patent application: 0030229638

13. July 2006

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Let me preface this post by saying I’m not a lawyer. Now to the meat: A patent has recently been awarded to Get The Job.com via their recent acquisition of EmployOn regarding the process of aggregating job content. Click here to see the entire application on file at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Typical of these [...]

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net-temps dive into vertical job search provides likely glimpse into future

12. July 2006

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Aside from Google Base, 2005 was the year that vertical job search engines like Indeed made a big splash in the Internet recruiting landscape. In the same year, Yahoo! HotJobs decided to tryout being a ‘little bit pregnant’ by integrating vertical search into their business-as-usual, pay-to-post model. For what will 2006 be remembered? If the rumors are [...]

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random unemployment ‘toon

11. July 2006

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hat tip

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one to watch - get the job.com

10. July 2006

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Other than industry old timers and residents of its homebase in the Cleveland metropolitan area, few may know about a company called EmployOn. More may, however, know them by another name: Grass Is Greener. Touting over 7 million job postings via their Web site, EmployOn/GIG has been spidering jobs back when the process was just a [...]

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big biz on blogging bandwagon?

7. July 2006

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An eMarketer article asks, “Is big biz ready to blog?” in regards to a recent survey that found 70 percent of large US companies will be blogging by year’s end, up from about 5 percent among Fortune 500s currently. Such a quick ascent? Not so much, the author thinks. It is not unthinkable that 70% of large [...]

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google (and msn) smile down on .jobs domain

5. July 2006

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Haters of .jobs, bow down. Though it’s taken some time, Google and other search engines are starting to show signs of lovin’ the .jobs domain. www.GoTo.jobs, the site’s brain center, was recently awarded a Google PageRank of 7/10. This is a high ranking currently shared by such industry standards as SHRM.org and CareerXRoads, sites which have been [...]

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