Yahoo searches Web for job listings

Yahoo is quietly testing a new job search engine that finds not just job listings from paid partners and advertisers but also from across the Web.

"Wouldn't job search be a lot easier and faster if you could search jobs from across the Web through one easy-to-use Web site?" the site's "learn more" page asks. "Well now you can with the new Job Engine from Yahoo HotJobs...We've searched the Web, so you don't have to."

The new HotJobs site lists sponsored postings, featured results from paid listings, followed by job results from the Web. Yahoo's HotJobs site previously got its listings directly from employers and staffing agencies.

"We are testing the implementation of a new job search engine that enables job seekers to find jobs from across the Internet at HotJobs.com," Yahoo confirmed in a statement on Wednesday. "In addition to providing advertised job listings on the Yahoo HotJobs site, we are employing our leading search technology to crawl the Internet, offering job seekers listings from other employer and job-related Web sites."

The move highlights Yahoo's growing focus on a "full service" approach, as competition from search giants Google and Microsoft's MSN continues to heat up. Yahoo's strategy is to deliver as much of the Web as possible--from Web-based e-mail to job listings and online dating services--in hopes of garnering a larger audience.

"If there was ever any question that the big search engines (Yahoo, Google, MSN) were getting into the vertical search game for jobs, this is undeniable proof," blogger Joel Cheesman wrote in his Online Recruitment Blog, which first reported on the new Yahoo jobs site.

The new site also challenges rival online job search companies like Monster and CareerBuilder.com in addition to job listing aggregator sites like Indeed and SimplyHired.com.

Easy to Find Info. VS. Stealing Content

As Marketing Director of a niche job board the news of Yahoo and other sites copying our job listings and reposting them raises legal and ethical concerns.
Recently we have experienced other sites "Stealing" our content under the guise of making searches easier for the end user, when it fact these companies are completely ignoring our terms of use which clearly states ?By accessing Company Name, you agree not to reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, display, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate the content from Company Name to anyone, including but not limited to others in the same company or organization for any public or commercial use, without the express prior written consent of Company Name.?
The companies which copy our data do not pay our staff which sell the job listings and provide customer support, pay for marketing and advertising, pay for the bandwidth used when ?Stealing? the information or any of the other numerous costs associated with running our company. Would it be O.K. for me to copy all of Yahoo, MSN and Google search results, combine them, proclaim it was done to make searches easier and then profit from it? I suspect I would have need of an attorney. In general these companies are saying anyone can go to any site, copy the content and repost it in any format they like. Complete Baloney.
Additionally these sites send unqualified job seekers to us, increasing our work load due to the fact our job seeker database is quality checked to insure candidates are specific to our niche industry, saving employers the headache of sorting through pages of unwanted resumes, something they encounter with the large general job boards.
Overall the only ones to benefit are the sites such as Yahoo who will increase their own traffic and sell more ads. If they want to post more jobs they should sell more subscriptions rather than profiting from others hard work.
Yahoo can keep their traffic, leave my jobs alone.

Easy to Find Info. VS. Stealing Content

As Marketing Director of a niche job board the news of Yahoo and other sites copying our job listings and reposting them raises legal and ethical concerns.
Recently we have experienced other sites "Stealing" our content under the guise of making searches easier for the end user, when it fact these companies are completely ignoring our terms of use which clearly states ?By accessing Company Name, you agree not to reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, display, sell, publish, broadcast or circulate the content from Company Name to anyone, including but not limited to others in the same company or organization for any public or commercial use, without the express prior written consent of Company Name.?
The companies which copy our data do not pay our staff which sell the job listings and provide customer support, pay for marketing and advertising, pay for the bandwidth used when ?Stealing? the information or any of the other numerous costs associated with running our company. Would it be O.K. for me to copy all of Yahoo, MSN and Google search results, combine them, proclaim it was done to make searches easier and then profit from it? I suspect I would have need of an attorney. In general these companies are saying anyone can go to any site, copy the content and repost it in any format they like. Complete Baloney.
Additionally these sites send unqualified job seekers to us, increasing our work load due to the fact our job seeker database is quality checked to insure candidates are specific to our niche industry, saving employers the headache of sorting through pages of unwanted resumes, something they encounter with the large general job boards.
Overall the only ones to benefit are the sites such as Yahoo who will increase their own traffic and sell more ads. If they want to post more jobs they should sell more subscriptions rather than profiting from others hard work.
Yahoo can keep their traffic, leave my jobs alone.