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confessions of a former careerbuilder sales guy

Sunday, June 22, 2008

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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.

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r.i.p. google base?

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

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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 [...]

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google testing search within search

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

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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.

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your new resume, compliments of ‘google sites’

Thursday, February 28, 2008

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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 [...]

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‘yahoo’ is not google’s most searched term of 2006

Friday, February 2, 2007

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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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