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Comment on Real Innovation in Search by Jonna

Jonna — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:37:30 +0000

Couldn’t agree more! Finding ways to get more context from what the user wants is now paramount…

Comment on Real Innovation in Search by Charles Knight

Charles Knight — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:31:13 +0000

I think a mashup of this blog post and this page: http://www.trovix.com/about/index.jsp would make a great post on AltSearchEngines. C Knight, editor

Comment on The Vertical Search Blender by Quincy Adams

Quincy Adams — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:50:19 +0000

Hi Trovix Blogger,

I think you’re absolutely right and the marketing machines are now shifting to the vertical search band wagon. Since Google and Yahoo have a near monopoly on the search landscape, the oxygen is being sucked out of the room in terms of the viability for new entrants to make an impact in this space.

However the players left in the search arena trying to monetize “vertical search”, should also be realizing the value they have buried in their deep content (beyond just advertising). Zillow may or may not be an example of this, but I believe that SimplyHired’s locale pages definitely are. The side effect of SimplyHired being able to search millions of jobs on the internet is that they also have created a network of all jobs by location. Since most people search for jobs by city, blending their mined data with content from GoogleMaps and Wikipedia (not exactly rocket science), has created powerful blended content play.

-Quincy Adams

Comment on The Job Hunting News Cycle by segan123

segan123 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:17:53 +0000

In all honesty, I do believe those tips are necessary. Most employers will be more impressed with someone who takes the time to spell-check their documents than someone who doesn’t care – it reflects on their behavior and how they might handle company assignments later on.

In regards to being yourself… You have a good point, but there is such a thing as letting people on to too much too fast. It’s good to be who you are in an interview, but at the same time, would you respond to said interviewer (essentially a stranger at this point) as you would your good friends?

-Segan

Comment on Semantic Search and the Semantic Web by Mans Shapshak

Mans Shapshak — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:20:09 +0000

What is also very important is the user interface for using the semantic information. Since the semantic web is much more rich in its realtionships the information architecture and hence the visualization paradigms need to be more advanced than we have today.

Comment on Are Video Resumes for Real? by John Little

John Little — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:16:02 +0000

Spot on with this observation. Recruiters will always decide on what they want in resumes if they are to read them. But mainly, in the larger recruitment firms at least, resumes are scanned into a database before they are looked at by the human eye. Then you have 15 to 30 seconds to make an impact.
And while they have millions invested in scanning and database technology they are not going to be looking at videos or “listening” to emails!

Comment on Are Social Networks for Recruiting a Myth? by eric shannon

eric shannon — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:22:21 +0000

I have been thinking about writing a post like this for some time. I was one of the first believers in social networking. Started applying for a related patent in 2001 which I later abandoned after a little real-life testing.

I do believe social networking can be useful in some circumstances, but I also think we are in a social networking recruitment bubble, LOL.

Comment on Taleo buys Vurv by one time vurv cog

one time vurv cog — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:03:38 +0000

Mercer was desperate to offload his sinking ship and had approached Taleo last January (or so I’ve heard, I have no reason to doubt this).

I would too, the company was never profitable! I just feel sorry for the good guys who are going to be screwed over.