(May 14, 2004) - Ever since Yahoo took responsibility for executing its own search function (in anticipation of the Google IPO), search results have been in flux. Here are the (somewhat surprising) results of search queries against the keywords Career, Jobs and Employment.

While Search Engine Placement has been dramatically overtaken by outright traffic acquisition and branding, it is terribly interesting to note that the Career and Employment searches returned few of the well known names. Our guess is that current branding strategies have not quite caught up with the changes in the search engines.

Sun Microsystems and Yahoo were the only employers to show up in the top ten.

 

Search: Career (46.5 Million Results)
Rank	Google	Yahoo
1	Career.com	Careers.org
2	CareerBuilder	CareerJournal
3	Employment Guide	Quintessential Careers
4	CareerMagazine	Environmental Careers Organization
5	Careers.org	Careers OnLine
6	CareerKey	Science Careers
7	Monster	E Jobs
8	CareerSite	Careers in Government
9	CareerJournal	Environmental Career Center
10	True Careers	Hospitality Careers Online

Search: Jobs (183 Million Results)
Rank	Google	Yahoo
1	Jobs.com	Monster.com
2	Monster	Yahoo! HotJobs
3	USAJOBS	America's Job Bank
4	Jobs.NET	CareerBuilder
5	Yahoo! HotJobs	Jobs.com
6	CareerBuilder	Jobs.net
7	Dice.com	google web directory
8	NationJob	Internet.com
9	The Guardian Jobs	USAJOBS
10	OverseasJobs.com	Jobs.ac.uk
Search: Employment (73.2 Million Results))
Rank	Google	Yahoo
1	EmploymentGuide.com	EmploymentGuide.com
2	CareerOne.com.au	Academic Employment Network
3	USAJOBS	Career One
4	Careers at Yahoo!	Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
5	Employment Spot.com	Yahoo! HotJobs
6	US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)	Sun Microsystems Employment
7	Employment Service	Employment.com.au
8	The Riley Guide	USAJOBS
9	Academic Employment Network	Monster.com
10	seek.com.au	Bureau of Labor Statistics

John Sumser