Info.com Taps Indeed.com For Job Ads
- by Shankar Gupta , April 20, 2005
Info.com, a Chicago-based search company, has a search engine that crawls the results of 14 other search engines, giving users the results from major search sites like Google, Yahoo, and AskJeeves, plus sites like eBay.com, Kanoodle.com, LookSmart.com and About.com.
Info.com's new jobs tab, which went live on Tuesday, is powered by Indeed.com, a job search site based in Stamford, Conn., which has indexed job listings from over 500 Web sites, including Careerbuilder.com, Monster.com, the top 200 newspaper's classifieds pages, and various company career pages.
"Info.com's business model is that we're a vertical search platform whereby we link the best of breed from different search engines," said Info.com CEO Stephen Scarr. "In the job search space, we felt that Indeed had a compelling method."
Scarr maintains that vertical search engines like Info.com can find some room between giants like Google and Yahoo. "The reality is that search engines cannot excel in all areas, which is why we feel that there's room for a vertical search platform by taking all these search areas and bringing them under one umbrella," Scarr said.
Both Info.com's job search site and Indeed.com's main site are monetized through search ads from Google's Adsense program.
I find this very intriguing. Was info.com intending to become a media giant? That really hasn't happened yet, and now, with all the power behind Google, I wonder if it ever will. At least now that they are paired with Indeed they can tell us about all the job listings available for <a href="http://www.ocresidentialservices.com">hvac</a> companies!
Oh, and how hard would it be for an hvac company (like http://www.ocresidentialservices.com ) to post a listing on Indeed? Are there any costs associated with it?