Talk:Job search engine

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Thinking this article should be renamed - people don't really think of sites like Monster.com as "search engines" and they don't perform any of the traditional search engine functions: crawing the web, indexing files, etc. these sites are respositories of resumes and job postings which are searchable, but they aren't search engines. --mtz206 21:11, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

If we were to be precise, we would call Monster.com and its ilk a "job board". However, some of the other sites mentioned (simplyhired.com and indeed.com) are search engines in the traditional sense that they index other job boards (thousands) and aggregate those results. When you search in one of them, the targets of your search are actually job listings from other boards. On the other hand, it could be argued that at google, the target of your search is a web site. At monster, the target of your search is a job posting. If a search engine is merely a method of connecting the user to their target, then montser fits the definition as well as google.

--maplebed 00:55, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree with mtz206. Some sites like FlipDog.com could accurately be called "job search engines" since they index job boards (like Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, etc.), but don't store job postings themselves. I think the definition should be reworked to reflect this. I absolutely do not think of employment websites (what maplebed calls job boards, another good term) as job search engines. They are more like searchable databases. I don't think we want the defintion to be so broad that Monster and Google could be considered the same thing. — Frecklefoot | Talk 14:35, 23 June 2006 (UTC)