Marketing.fm Marketing Podcast #8 welcomes Paul Forster who is the CEO of the vertical job search engine Indeed.com
Indeed.com offers up a solution to surfing through hundreds of job sites by aggregating the information into one place making it easier to find the job you are looking for, as well as track the results via RSS feeds for each query. Having persistent search via RSS as an option to the user, changes and additions to job listings can be tracked outside of Indeed.com in a simple way.
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Show Length: 21:07
The Indeed.com Blog
Indeed.com is a search engine for jobs with over 5,000 sources.
You can save Indeed.com query’s as RSS feeds, email alerts, and even searches within the site once logged in.
Some new features include salary tracking and job trends.
We discuss competitors such as SimplyHired and what makes Indeed.com different.
How does Indeed.com make money?
Indeed.com has setup a forum for users who have been successful in finding a job can share their stories.
To get more familiar with RSS and how to use it checkout our simple “What is RSS?” article.
Looking at the future of vertical search engines as well as what the future of Indeed.com holds.
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March 21, 2007
Marketing.fm, Search, Technology, Vertical Search