Metasearch site Info.com announced Tuesday that it has made a deal with a second metasearch site, www.Indeed.com, to power a job listings feature.
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.