indeed.com Leading as it Turns Five
November 30, 2009 by Alice Allan
Global job search engine indeed.com has just celebrated its fifth birthday. The search engine states it is now the number one employment website in the US in terms of unique visitors and page views based on figures from comScore.
Since launching in November 2004, indeed.com has grown to include websites in 19 countries and 10 languages. It says it sees 24 million unique visitors and one billion job searches per month worldwide, and that it is the leading pay-for-performance recruitment advertising network.
2009 has seen indeed.com expand to the Brazillian market and release a number one iPhone application. The search engine has also spent the year quietly climbing to the top of the US market.
In June comScore reported 50 percent growth in the US for indeed.com in 12 months, but at that stage had it placed fourth in terms of US job websites. June also saw two of indeed.com’s staff members jump to rival job search engine juju.com.
In July, comScore figures reported by techcrunch.com put indeed.com’s US page view numbers above careerbuilder.com’s, monster.com’s, simplyhired.com’s and Yahoo! Hot Jobs’.
As well as gaining visitors, indeed.com has also attracted attention from industry analysts this year: it was featured by wired.com as one of the “cool search engines that are not Google” in June, and also made it into AltSearchEngines’ 100 Search Engines in 100 Minutes presentation earlier this month.
indeed.com explains that it is a privately held company founded by Paul Forster and Rony Kahan, with investors including The New York Times Company, Allen & Company and Union Square Ventures.
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