“I see dead people.” Search for your age, and then…

April 17th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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Dead.AtYourAge.com is published by Intersect, a privately held company based in Seattle. The Intersect team, which is quite diverse, strives to marry compelling content with the remarkable social utility of the Internet. We believe the most compelling content often comes from the community itself. (You don’t see community content yet, but stay tuned.) Intersect was founded by Peter Rinearson, an entrepreneur who ran a successful software company (alki.com) for more than 10 years, served as a vice president of Microsoft and a cable television network, and won a Pulitzer Prize and authored or coauthored five books including a New York Times No. 1 bestseller (The Road Ahead, which he coauthored with Bill Gates). Source: Dead.AtYourAge.com

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Charles Knight,

You are 47 years and 164 days old today.

That’s exactly half the life of somebody famous. In another 47 years and 164 days, you will have lived exactly as long as Abraham Beame. He was a mayor of New York City (1973-1977) who died at the age of 94 years, 327 days.

John Gay was almost two weeks younger than you when he died on December 4, 1732. He was a poet, playwright and librettist for the satirical ballad opera “The Beggar’s Opera” (1728). He died 229 years before you were born.

You’ve outlived Lon Chaney Sr. by about two weeks. He was a silent film actor known for playing grotesque characters and for his innovative use of film makeup. He died of lung cancer on August 26, 1930, 32 years before you were born.

Simón Bolívar was almost three weeks younger than you when he died of tuberculosis on December 17, 1830. He was an a liberator of South America from Spain and President of Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and Bolivia. He died 131 years before you were born.

So, who was dead at your age? Dare to search?

Meijob – the job search engine for jobs in China

April 17th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Global, Job Search, Verticals | 2 Comments »

meijob_logoMeijob maintains China’s fastest growing job index. Our job crawler aggregates thousands of daily employment opportunities from more than 150 job sites. Meijob’s website is the only fully bilingual (both Chinese and English) job site in China, which is used by more than 500,000 subscribers.

We combine common sense with superior technology to provide jobseekers with access to all relevant job ads in one place. Meijob users can search, save, and apply for relevant employment opportunities from across the web, without the need to visit or register with any other job site.

China is a big country with many big job sites. Meijob’s search technology helps jobseekers cut through the clutter and see only the jobs that are relevant to them. By referring only appropriate applicants for each position, Meijob also saves time for job advertisers. This makes it more likely for employers to review an application and increases our user’s chances of getting the job they want.

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Meijob enables jobseekers to see all available jobs, without the need to visit any other website.

Jobseekers use Meijob’s bilingual search engine to browse jobs by location, industry, position, requirements and employer type, or combine these details to zone in on positions relevant to them. They can also create a personal profile, upload their resume and keep track of previously searched jobs and new opportunities as they become available.

Once an appropriate job opening is found, jobseekers can apply for it quickly and easily use the information stored in their profile. The application email generated by Meijob is formatted to increase applicants’ chances of having their profile reviewed by the employer. This generates more relevant applicants with a minimum of hassle.

Meijob’s automated application process provides employers with all the relevant information about each applicant in a clear, coherent way. This saves recruiters the hassle of dealing with irrelevant applications and shortens the recruitment cycle.

Source: Meijob

Exalead – Bringing Efficiency to Desktop Search

April 17th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
Posted in Unique Interfaces, Updates | No Comments »

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Exalead Desktop installs on your PC in just a few minutes, giving you the ability to search more than 100 file types, including email messages, email attachments, Office documents, PDFs, images, sound files, video clips and more.

  • Index an unlimited number of documents.
  • Navigate intelligently through your search results, searching within results or filtering by related terms, author or recipient, date, language, file type, source, file size…
  • Scan results quickly with visual aids: file format icons, thumbnail images, document previews, etc.
  • Find documents containing difficult to spell names and terms with phonetic and approximate spelling tools.
  • Access all your documents securely and in real-time, with an index that automatically stays up to date with your files.
  • Search your PC, the Web, Images, Videos, Wikipedia from a single entry point.

exalead-mdExalead Desktop search gives you instant access to all content on your desktop, connected peripherals (USB keys, external drives) and shared sources (Lotus Notes, MS Exchange), whether you are looking for an Office document, an email, an attached file, a contact, an appointment, etc.

“Until now, I’ve never used such an intuitive effortless search tool. I was floored by Exalead’s broad range of search operators, and the one-click ease of constructing complex search queries”

– Jim Justen, Technical Support

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The Main Features:

*Navigate intelligently through results: Search within results or filter by related terms, author or recipient, date, language, file type, file size, location, and more!

*Scan results quickly:  At-a-glance scanning with document summaries, file type icons, thumbnail images and application-independent previews with search term highlighting

*Eliminate spelling errors: Find documents containing difficult to spell names and terms with a built-in spell checker and phonetic and approximate spelling search

*Search safely and securely: Fully respects each computer’s security settings, access rights and privacy

*Search in real-time: The Exalead index automatically stays up to date with new and modified content

*Enjoy unlimited scalability: Exalead Desktop indexes an unlimited number of documents in 120 file formats (300+ Professional Edition)

New! Available Right Now with Exalead Desktop 4.6

* Same intuitive, browser-based interface as www.exalead.com/search
* One-click tabbing between Desktop, Web, Image, Video and Wikipedia search
* Optional tag cloud display for related terms
* Customization of the “Narrow your search” navigation tools

Source: Exalead

CollegeRecruiter helps college students find jobs!

April 17th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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The mission of CollegeRecruiter.com is to be the premiere information source for college students, grads and recent graduates who are seeking employment, continuing education and business opportunities. For candidates, key CollegeRecruiter.com features include hundreds of thousands of entry level job posting ads (on-line help wanted ads), a School Finder feature which matches those interested in continuing their education with hundreds of traditional and on-line schools, and tens of thousands of pages of employment-related articles, blogs, and Ask the Experts questions and answers.

The plethora of key features are:

  • CollegeRecruiter.com is featured by major media almost every week, including such media as ABC News, Associated Press, Business Week, CBS News, Chicago Tribune, CNN, CNN Headline News, Entrepreneur magazine, Entrepreneur radio, Fortune, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Journal of Career Planning & Employment, National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation (186 stations nationwide), NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, New York Times, Reuters, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, and the Washington Post.
  • CollegeRecruiter.com was a winner of the prestigious Weddle’s User’s Choice Awards for best job boards in 2007 and 2008 and was rated as a “best” site by CareerXroads.
  • Our client list includes hundreds of leading organizations, including the Army National Guard, Central Intelligence Agency, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Fidelity Investments, Internal Revenue Service, National Security Agency, RadioShack, Red Lobster, T-Mobile, and Valpak.
  • We have 120 million candidates, including more than 10 million college students and recent graduates in our database.
  • Hundreds of thousands of entry level and internship job posting (help wanted) ads running at any one time. Our large database helps attract a large number of candidates, which helps to ensure an excellent response to your job postings.
  • Whether you want to hire just a handful of candidates or hundreds, you’ll love our database of 120 million candidates, including more than 10 million college students and recent graduates. If we send on your behalf a targeted email or cell phone text messaging (SMS) campaign, we’ll be able to pinpoint the candidates you are looking for based on 700 data fields, including keywords, occupational fields, major, school, diversity, age, gender, language skills, income, education level, zip code, area code, and many more!
  • Thousands of employment-related articles, blogs, Ask the Experts questions and answers, and audio and video podcasts, all of which help to pull in significant traffic from search engines.
  • 20,000 web sites, including hundreds of college career service office web sites, direct job seekers to CollegeRecruiter.com.
  • After candidates view your job posting ad and click on the Apply button, their applications will be sent to you via email or, if you prefer, they will be taken to any page on any web site so that you can have them apply using your on-line form.
  • For federal government contractors, we also help our employer clients become OFCCP compliant.


Source: College Recruiter.com

U.S. Geological Survey Selects Vivisimo as Search Partner

April 17th, 2009 by Charles S. Knight
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The U.S. Geological Survey has chosen Vivisimo, a leading provider of enterprise search software and expertise, to provide its website users data and information from a number of diverse biological data sources.

The award-winning Vivisimo Velocity Search will replace the USGS’ National Biological Information Infrastructure’s (NBII) search solution and provide a single search interface for researchers, decision makers, government agencies, educators, and the public. NBII is a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation’s biological resources. The program works with various federal, state, non-profit and educational institutions in support of its overall mission and objectives. Biological search is one key infrastructure component within the overall NBII distributed architecture.

usgsThe Velocity implementation will initially search at least 30 diverse data sources—including databases, high-quality scientific websites, biological datasets from around the globe, multi-media/image galleries, and other large-scale federated collections—across multiple agencies and universities. Typical content within these sites ranges from scientific datasets to photographs of biological organisms.

In addition to presenting topical clusters, categories and the spotlighting of key information, Velocity will also enable geospatial display of search results—allowing users to search for certain plants or animals in a specific region or location. USGS will also incorporate Velocity’s new conceptual search to take advantage of its extensive and authoritative Biocomplexity Thesaurus. Conceptual search will enhance the user search experience by presenting suggestions of conceptual terms that may be broader, narrower or similar to those that the user provided in the initial query.  This facilitates improved retrieval and accuracy of results and eliminates the need for users to apply the exact terms for querying related concepts.

Source: Vivisimo