May 08, 2007 | Tuesday
A more credible Google acquisition rumour
By Jackie Danicki - Blogger in Search Engines |Google |Search Technology
While the Google/Dow Jones deal isn’t being given much credibility by industry pundits, reports that Google is angling to purchase SimplyHired.com certainly are.
SimplyHired has developed widgets which let bloggers create their own jobs boards, and recently won the lucrative deal to power MySpace’s jobs results. Add to this the fact that SimplyHired would be best described (or would have before the term “Web 2.0” became so ubiquitous as to lose most meaning) as the quintessential Web 2.0 jobs website. It is US-only at the moment, but has created much buzz as an aggregator of online job listings. The company’s appeal to Google seems obvious: SimplyHired even allows you to filter your job search results for companies which let you bring your dog to work. (Yes, Google permits employees’ canine friends join them on the job.) This is the job search site of choice for American ‘pro-sumers’ - the sort of people who had their iPods more than a year before they went mainstream, for example. It is exactly the sort of web property that Google would have created itself if someone hadn’t beat them to the punch. We’ll see if the VCs who own SimplyHired will consider this deal simply done…
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