Yahoo Entering Jobs Aggregation/Search Market

That’s according to an e-mail alert by Classified Intelligence…Yahoo has entered the vertical search market, quietly launching a vertical search engine on HotJobs. Now, a job search turns up listings from HotJobs advertisers first, but also includes listings from other job boards and from employer sites. (The news was first reported on this HR blog…)

According to the alert, “the move makes Yahoo the first among the major search engines to enter the burgeoning — and competitive — vertical search market, and gives the company first-mover advantage over Google, which is widely believed to be developing a classifieds program of its own.” The company is also competing against startups such as Indeed.com, SimplyHired and others…