Comments on: Google Acquiring Simply Hired ? A Search Giant Buying Search Service http://startupmeme.com/google-acquiring-simply-hired-a-search-giant-buying-search-service/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:31:22 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Matt Jaynes http://startupmeme.com/google-acquiring-simply-hired-a-search-giant-buying-search-service/comment-page-1/#comment-500 Matt Jaynes Sat, 05 May 2007 01:48:00 +0000 http://startupmeme.com/2007/05/04/google-acquiring-simply-hired-a-search-giant-buying-search-service/#comment-500 SimplyHired has done a pretty great job in their space. It would make sense for Google to acquire them to get the SimplyHired team. Also, this would make sense given Google's history - particularly in their acquisition of YouTube. Google already had Google Video, but YouTube had outdone them by a long shot, so Google acquired the YouTubers. It's the same with the job-search market - have you ever searched for a job using Google Base (link below)? Probably not. SimplyHired has far outperformed Google in this vertical and so would be a very attractive acquisition. http://www.google.com/base/search?a_n0=jobs&a_y0=9&hl=en&gl=US VS http://simplyhired.com SimplyHired has done a pretty great job in their space. It would make sense for Google to acquire them to get the SimplyHired team. Also, this would make sense given Google’s history – particularly in their acquisition of YouTube. Google already had Google Video, but YouTube had outdone them by a long shot, so Google acquired the YouTubers. It’s the same with the job-search market – have you ever searched for a job using Google Base (link below)? Probably not. SimplyHired has far outperformed Google in this vertical and so would be a very attractive acquisition.

http://www.google.com/base/search?a_n0=jobs&a_y0=9&hl=en&gl=US

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http://simplyhired.com

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