Archive for March, 2005

Vertical Search or Meta Search

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

I look at kayak.com, sidestep, mobissimo and wonder if really vertical search is just this. All these services are useful, but to me these sites are a lot closer to meta-search rather than a vertical search.
I wrote before that the vertical search apps are built based on the core search apps. Google has taught us […]

Vertical Search - Why?

Friday, March 25th, 2005

So, apparently silicon valley is buzzing about vertical search. I have heard about quite a few start ups that do vertical search in some capacity or the other. I am listing a few here. Most of them seem to be focused on jobs. Indeed.com , simplyhired.com, Workzoo, NimbleCat, Fatlens are a few of the companies […]

Vertical Search

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005

So Jupiter research came out with an expensive research report about ‘vertical search’. The conclusion is that there will be specialized search engines helping you do specific tasks very well. While I don’t neccessarily disagree that vertical search engines may be the thing of the future. I would love to read the analysis that gets […]

new breed of job sites

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Quite a few of businesses crawling the web for job postings and building interesting applications. Seems like everyone feels that this space has a lot of room for improvement. Here are couple of crawl/index based job sites i have seen. If you know anymore please post in comments.
Indeed - claims to have 2.6 Million […]