We think that job searching is a perfect application of feed technology. This is because job searching requires going the same thing over and over again (finding the site, entering the search terms, reviewing the output). We thought we would do a little research to see how common job search RSS feeds are in common usage. The reason we are interested in this is because this could be used to create a job dashboard for people looking for jobs.
We decided to goto Google Adwords and use their keyword tool. This is a good way to find how often search terms are entered. We decided to contrast it to the number of searches for “search engines.” See the results below.
Now notice how much more popular the terms related to search engines are.
What we take from this is that people are not searching for and using job RSS feeds with anywhere close to the level that they search for job search engines. We also see that few sites are advertising their job feeds. Look, we only find 4 ads under job feed search.
We will discuss this topic in more detail in future posts.
