By Joel Cheesman - The following e-mail was sent to me by a former CareerBuilder sales rep. The locations and names have been changed to protect the innocent. They discuss how "selling to HR" is a no-no when trying to make the sale.
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The end of the road may officially be near for Google Base. Two years ago, Google started integrating a secondary search box into job query results that would then take users to job listings on Base. Knowing how much job board traffic is (or can be) driven by search engines, I (and I wasn’t alone) believed [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Probably one of the many tests that won’t go anywhere, but Google is currently adding search within specific domains via Web searches. So far, such functionality only accompanies No. 1 rankings and, like most tests, is visible sporadically. My own opinion is this clutters-up an already ever-cluttering results page. They’d be best served to kill this.
Continue reading...Thursday, February 28, 2008
Google’s rebranded launch of Jotspot as Google Sites is fairly intriguing as an opening act. Think wiki meets Facebook meets Blogger. Techcrunch, as usual, has a good breakdown. For us, however, most noteworthy is the ability to create online resumes. It’s a little hard to see from the image above, but this page has links to an [...]
Continue reading...Friday, February 2, 2007
A recent post by Yahoo’s Matt Martone cites a Yahoo blog touting data from Google Trends that Yahoo! is “the number one search term on their search engine last year.” Wrong. Google Trends tracks the number of times a certain word or phrase ends up in Google’s index. It does not reflect the most searched terms. For that [...]
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
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