Comments on: Gladoo…vertical search engine for Indian IT jobs

By: Electric Griddle

Electric Griddle — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 08:19:38 +0000

i do not use adbrite because their pay rate is horrendously low compared to say infolinks -,`

By: Vinay Yadav

Vinay Yadav — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:21:04 +0000

ebharatjobs.com is also a popular job search engine for India.

By: Observer

Observer — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:18:01 +0000

Strange that you have missed out Rediff Jobsearch. It’s one of the most popular vertical search engines for jobs.

By: amit

amit — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:18:08 +0000

Hi,

While you are correct in your analysis about the legal aspects of aggregation and the ensuing uncertainity of a business model based on that, I feel that as the web matures, aggregation will become accepted by one and all. Disallowing aggregation by modyfying the robots.txt, is at best a threat (a bargaining tool), and not something that popular websites will actually carry out. Look at the Naukri-Bixee episode; that issue is sorted out and aggregation continues. After all, the parent website is also gaining in the process.

A bigger problem with aggregators is the lack of a viable revenue model, apart from PPC advertising.

Amit

By: i2ifactory

i2ifactory — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:49:21 +0000

As usual a well written profile Amit. Indeed Gladoo has done good work. In my opinion the biggest challenge aggregators face is in lawful aggregation of content. Unfortunately thats were vertical aggregators like gladoo have no clear roadmap, there current strategy is to crawl job sites based on the settings in robots.txt, the job sites can very well disallow the gladoo crawler to crawl their content. What happens in this scenario? How would gladoo provide relevant content for the user base?
There needs to be a legal model (tie – ups with content providers, job sites, employers) for the gladoo model to work. I am afraid without relevant legal and continuous supply of content, aggregator sites like gladoo have no future.