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Instant Job Board
Our portfolio company Indeed.com is doing some great stuff.
For those who are not familiar with Indeed, its a job search engine. Think Google for jobs.
As Indeed says, "one search, all jobs". Give it a try. It's so simple and so powerful if you are in the market for a job.
But Indeed's job search can run anywhere. So if you run a web site or blog and want a job board, you don't have to build one. You can just host a version of Indeed. A great example of this is Gawker Jobs which launched this past week. Gawker is a blog about New York gossip, particularly gossip about the media industry in New York.
Gawker Jobs is just a "canned search" on Indeed for media jobs in New York. But when you go look at Gawker Jobs, you'll see that the featured jobs are perfect for Gawker's audience.
There is another way to host an instant job board and that is called Indeed Jobroll. We have been running one on our Union Square Ventures weblog since we launched it and today there is a job listing for a CEO for a podcasting startup. Now that's pretty relevant and we did nothing to make that job show up on our site other than enter a specific search into Indeed and save it as a Jobroll and paste the code into our blog template. We did that once many months ago and its been working flawlessly since.
Pretty cool eh? We think so.
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Posted January 20, 2006 in Venture Capital and TechnologyComments
So they are aggregating from primary job sites? Do the primaries get paid for the right to extract the listings? I've always wondered about aggregation sites...seems to be they core sites do the work and the aggregators skim. What am I missing? Besides a brain, a real life, and cash?
Posted by: Charlie Crystle | Jan 21, 2006 2:48:19 AM
Didn't Craigslist just get really cranky about scraping?
...quick search...
Yes, they went after oodle
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/12959458.htm
Posted by: Erik | Jan 21, 2006 8:42:20 AM
Yes, Craigslist got cranky with Oodle. But it seemed like Oodle's mode was to scrape *everything*. Indeed has a focus on jobs, which has to make its load on CL servers lighter.
Posted by: Adam DuVander | Jan 21, 2006 12:24:41 PM
We're looking into re-instituting the hedge fund jobs board on SeekingAlpha.com, as we're widely read by hedge fund managers. So this is very interesting for me.
Question: does the Indeed jobs board allow your own users to post jobs to the board that is displayed on your site, or does it only display jobs from other boards?
Posted by: David Jackson | Jan 21, 2006 1:46:13 PM
SimplyHired needs to get on the ball or they're going to get trumped by Indeed.com :)
Posted by: Ken | Jan 21, 2006 1:55:58 PM
There was already a company called Flipdog that did the same thing around 5 years back and got bought by Monster.com. So nothing innovative here.
Posted by: James | Jan 21, 2006 2:07:20 PM
umm, so you went to school to copy or to invent? ( this is not a trick question ).
It sounds tongue in cheek ( not sure which one ) "novel" and sure to be the next biggest thing !
Sounds like consumer technology lemming but in another field ?
Nope really not being sarcastic, just if you don't know where to put your money, you might as well do t bills for the benefit of your investors ! and hang up the sheepshik to dry cuz u're all wet !
cheers and yes folks are looking for careers outside of the Improv !
Posted by: houdini the lemming | Jan 23, 2006 10:42:10 PM
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