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Hong Kong based Recruit.net is a job search engine with an Australasian focus.

The job search engine and aggregation market is crowded. In January Michael Arrington suggested that there was a bubble in job boards. The rise of sites like Indeed and Simply Hired coupled with companies such as Edgeio that offer co-branded job boards makes it a marketplace that borders on saturation.

Recruit.net doesn’t offer US based job search, instead targets the Asia-Pacific market: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan and Singapore.

As an aggregator of job listings, Recuit.net offers the usual array of job listings. Jobs are sourced through direct partnerships with sites such as with MyCareer.com.au in Australia and through direct employer listings. Jobs can be followed via feed or email subscription and a comparative salary add-on provides market wide data for prospective employees.

Where Recruit.net excels is in its development of syndication partnerships with other sites. Overclockers Australia and Singapore Expats are amongst numerous existing partners with a new deal with ZDNet India to be announced this week.

Recuit.net’s Maneck Mohan described the model to me as “monetizing job search via international syndication networks”. Recruit.net syndicates their sponsored job content to reach “passive” job seekers across a network of partner sites, which Mohan describes as a more mature revenue model than Indeed or Simply Hired.

Recruit.net is available in three languages (English, Chinese and Japanese). The site has averaged a 33% increase in organic traffic per month since launching in July 2006, and has indexed over 23 million jobs.

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Maryland based Intelliverb is a full content based search engine with a relevancy model driven by point of operation dependency.

The company founders have designed and implemented an algorithm called PageScale, which ranks pages on an “intelligent content analysis basis” and not popularity alone. This approach is said to deliver different search results than regular search engines.

The company is of limited means and the search engine is conceptual, so there’s always room for improvement. In a week that saw the launch of ACrappySearchEngine.com it’s best to let Intelliverbs results speak for themselves.

Vanity Search:

No luck. How about the boss:

Michael Jordon is the first result. Both are tall so I guess it’s at least warm. Lets search for Intelliverb itself:

Intelliverb.com not in the first 2 results. It was third.

It’s clearly not Google, so the results are fairly accurate. The last question:

Better.

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PayPerPost, the controversial blogging service that lets advertisers purchase commentary on blogs, has released a new product called PayPerPost Direct. The new product is a widget that bloggers can add to their blogs that announces their willingness to sell blog posts.

Previously, bloggers perused listings on the PayPerPost website, looking for opportunities to make a few extra dollars. Now, bloggers can set their own minimum price when creating a widget, and let advertisers come to them directly.

This feature subtly shifts the way the company approaches the market. The current system has advertisers paying a set fee per post regardless of the differences in blog size or authority. The result was a low average fee of a $5 or so, which didn’t attract the larger blogs. Now that bloggers can set their own price and engage with advertisers one-on-one, we may see a few of the larger ones begin to use the service. Competitor ReviewMe has a similar approach that pays large blogs more, although the price is based on an algorithm.

PayPerPost keeps 10% of fees generated through the Direct product. Their standard fee on their normal product is a 35% cut.

We’ll wait and see if any of the large blogs adopt this anytime soon. PayPerPost is still deeply flawed - it allows advertisers to demand positive writeups, and they do not require bloggers to disclose within the post itself that it is sponsored text.

Look for a press release later this week. An overview video is available here.

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