Both sites have tied in with Seek, so even points there. It would have been interesting if one had linked up with rising star Trade Me Jobs, but I guess blood is thicker than water in Australasian media. Seek is part-owned by PBL, who are behind the msn effort, and most likely the legacy Seek deal with xtra folded over to the Yahoo!xtra site.
So let’s try searching for a “job”.
It’s probably a bad search term – Yahoo! puts partner Seek at #3 and Trade Me at #5 (these are the 2 biggest sitesby traffic). Google gets Seek at #1 but puts Jobstuff at #3, which at least links through to Trade Me Jobs. msn is pathetic again.
I tried a bunch of other search terms, but sadly there were none better. All big employment sites could improve their SEO it seems.
(A mini-rant on msn search (live)- you cannot even constrain your search to NZ from the msn.co.nz page. The search results are so bad that they seem almost random. There is no link back to the originating msn.co.nz site. It’s just unusable.)
this round to Yahoo! (or actually google, but they have not just launched a new site)
Lance Wiggs 