My former employer, CareerBoard.com, has been acquired by UK-based JobServe. Click here for the story as told by Crain’s Cleveland Business. In a bright spot for Cleveland’s economy, the acquisition is projected to bring 100 new jobs to the company, up from 20.
JobServe also purchased Florida-based ComputerWork recently. I have to admit I had never […]

Google rankings have been really freaking out lately. The army of investigators may have found out why. In “Full-up Google choking on web spam,” The Register looks to explain the current state of Google’s rankings, saying:
“With creating junk web pages is so cheap and easy to do, Google is engaged in an arms race with […]

An amusing post on the increasing misery that is working for a local (or any) newspaper: Daily Newspapers Continue to Struggle. Do you think students in J-school dream of working for The Times or blogging for a living?

Everyone’s buzzing about it, but I’ll just go right to the source for the skinny on Google Calendar.

This just in via ClickZ: Vast.com and Its Ilk Please Some, Annoy Others.
If you’re not familiar with Vast, they’re in competition with the Oodle’s and Indeed’s of the world. A new vertical search engine for everything online classified.
And they’re apparently ticking off some people.
Citing system drag and “theft,” online classified sites such as Cars.com and […]

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It’s like readying the troops for Normandy. Google is preparing to integrate job content from Google Base into its general Web search, as evident by this e-mail sent out this past weekend:
Hi there,
We have some great news we’d like to share with you regarding the content you are submitting to Google Base. […]