There is nothing new about searching through classified ads online, for example oodle or the ubiquitous Craigslist. They are not web search engines, they don’t crawl the web. They just search through websites full of ads. People continuously post their ads to their local newspapers, etc., and that’s what keeps the content fresh on sites like these.
Trovit does the same thing, and in fewer categories, just homes, autos, and jobs. You cannot send your ad to trovit, you post it on a local website, and then the trovit spiders come along and pick it up.
The moral of the story is that there are search engines and then there are search engines. What matters is simply knowing what the universe of data is that is being searched. Yesterday the universe was 4,700 numismatic websites, with trovit it is a certain number of classified ad websites, which trovit separates by category and by country.
But the index, as we know, if only half of the story. The interface is always the other half. Trovit has a very clean interface that flows particularly well. You mouseover the country that you want, then you click on the category that you want, and then a homepage for exactly that country and category comes up; that’s when you conduct your search.
Here’s a quick tour:
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First, select your country:
and then select the category: homes, cars, or jobs.
In this case, I have selected jobs in Italy. And here is a result:
Do you live in one of these countries?
Please give trovit a test drive and let us know what you think of it.
So, what does “trovit” mean?
“trovi” is “find” in Esperanto. Add “it,” so trovi+it, trovit means find it!
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August 23rd, 2007 at 11:38 am
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August 23rd, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Italy, search for job, ingegnere informatico (data/software engineer): 59 results.
Trovit seems a data collection of other job research sites. So so, generic.
Trovi is “you find” in italian also. If the start up was (it)alian…
August 24th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Escelente metabuscador que te permite acceder a todas las ofertas de empleo del mercado; infojobs, tecnoempleo, infoempleo, monster.
August 26th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Trovit is very general, none of the listings are original – they simply agreggate from other aggregators (portals). There’s a real estate search engine for UK and South Africa that actually crawls (the only one that I know of) called extate.com, and indexes only the original listings on individual agency sites – have you heard of it? You can even seach for “1 bed flat in london under 500k with a balcony” and get relevant results, unlike Trovit, Google, or anyone else.
August 26th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
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September 28th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Local Jobs Guide…
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…
November 22nd, 2007 at 6:21 am
Trovit may be very job searcher friendly, but how good is the data on it. I’ve just received a call from someone looking for a job which had never been advertised, nor ever existed (search trovit/jobs/cashier work from home and it pops up No1). As MD of Intersystem I would just love the salary offered!!!!!
Where do they get their data from??????
I’m still waiting for a reply from trovit