http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2005/03/new-breed-of-job-sites.html Opinions on Business Technology & Life from Ravi Dronamraju Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:38:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2005/03/new-breed-of-job-sites.html#comment-40 Thu, 26 May 2005 15:32:00 +0000 http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2005/03/new-breed-of-job-sites.html#comment-40 Ravi:<BR/><BR/>Fetchster.com: We're a job search engine for Minnesota - spidering technology. We hover around 6500-7000 listings for the state. Still well behind AJB for the statewide listings, but we've long surpassed Monster and Careerbuilder for Minnesota jobs.<BR/><BR/>Adam Gedde<BR/>www.fetchster.com Ravi:

Fetchster.com: We’re a job search engine for Minnesota - spidering technology. We hover around 6500-7000 listings for the state. Still well behind AJB for the statewide listings, but we’ve long surpassed Monster and Careerbuilder for Minnesota jobs.

Adam Gedde
www.fetchster.com

]]> http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2005/03/new-breed-of-job-sites.html#comment-39 Sun, 27 Mar 2005 01:44:00 +0000 http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2005/03/new-breed-of-job-sites.html#comment-39 We're currently running at between 2.5M to 2.8M job listings currently, on <A HREF="http://www.simplyhired.com" REL="nofollow">SimplyHired.com</A>.<BR/><BR/>We should probably be increasing that gradually over the next few weeks, once we stabilize our crawl & get most of the hang issues worked out.<BR/><BR/>Note that the # will vary depending on how quickly jobs expire at certain job boards, and also based on how many boards/employers post duplicate listings with slight variations. We do a pretty good job on the de-duping, but sometimes the employers may vary the description intentionally and/or list frequently in order to get higher visibility.<BR/><BR/>Not really our philosophy with respect to relevance there, but that's just how the market functions right now. We hope to change that quite a bit though... see our <A HREF="http://blog.simplyhired.com" REL="nofollow">SimplyBlog</A> for more thoughts on this). We’re currently running at between 2.5M to 2.8M job listings currently, on SimplyHired.com.

We should probably be increasing that gradually over the next few weeks, once we stabilize our crawl & get most of the hang issues worked out.

Note that the # will vary depending on how quickly jobs expire at certain job boards, and also based on how many boards/employers post duplicate listings with slight variations. We do a pretty good job on the de-duping, but sometimes the employers may vary the description intentionally and/or list frequently in order to get higher visibility.

Not really our philosophy with respect to relevance there, but that’s just how the market functions right now. We hope to change that quite a bit though… see our SimplyBlog for more thoughts on this).

]]> http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2005/03/new-breed-of-job-sites.html#comment-38 Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:00:00 +0000 http://www.dronamraju.com/blog/2005/03/new-breed-of-job-sites.html#comment-38 Hi Ravi,<BR/><BR/>I work for an online co. myself- I work in the Media Buying team. What's your role in Yahoo? Hi Ravi,

I work for an online co. myself- I work in the Media Buying team. What’s your role in Yahoo?

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