spotted myspider today, though I am not sure how recent it is; it claims to have 300k plus jobs aggregated from the top job boards in Australia; jobsearch and and other corporates coming soon.
It called my attention that compared to other aggregators that take visitors to the original site if visitors want to see the job ad in full, myspider shows a flat text version of the ad scraped from the job board, on their own site. Only if job seekers click on the ‘apply online’ button, are they taken to the native (job board) online application screen.
The full ad display on the site is kinda ugly (e.g. no line breaks) but hey they info is there. I wonder is what this produces is more filtered traffic to the original site (she who clicks applies). If that’s the case, is it better or worse for the job seeker? and for the job site? and for the advertiser?
went to have a look at myspider this morning but the site is down. or at least not responding when I try to access it.
anyone else having any issues with it?
has been like this since yest night brett, thought it was just maintenance.. we’ll see
and you could have known this is if you were following me on twitter
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hope you had a good trip
j