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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]