Google launches also in Italy the search engine that scans the web to find job ads. Extremely powerful, it provides many filters
After about two years since its launch in the USA, Google Job Search, Big G’s search engine dedicated to job offers that has already been active since 2017 in many other countries around the world, has arrived in Italy too.
Since yesterday, those who search on the Italian version of Google for “job offers”, “job + qualification”, “job + city” or similar words get a box with the offers that are most consistent with what they have searched for. This box is nothing but the preview of a much more structured page, reachable by clicking on “Other filters”, from which you can refine the search for a job position. Google Job Search is not a site of job ads, but a sort of aggregator of the offers published on other sites. At the moment in Italy the sources from which Google draws are Gedi, Jobonline, Monster and Trovolavoro. However, in some cases Google is also able to scan ads posted on Linkedin.
How Google Job Search works
Web sites that want to be in the Job Search box have a set of technical guidelines: if they layout their ad as Google requires, then their offers can be aggregated by Job Search. The real power of Google Job Search, however, cannot be seen from the box within the search results: it is by clicking on the filters that the page opens where the user can actually find the information and the ads he is looking for. He can filter them by location, date of publication or type (part time, consulting, full time or internship). It can save an ad and read it again later, and it can create alerts for specific job openings.
Will Google Sweep Job Search Sites?
Many are wondering if this move by Google will lead to the disappearance of the many sites online for offering and searching for a job. The problem doesn’t really arise because Job Search does more or less what Flights does: it aggregates data published elsewhere, then sends the user to the original site.
Rather, Google Job Search can solve one of the main problems of these sites: duplicate job listings. Very often the same offer, with the same text, is “smeared” across all the free sites available on the Web and this slows down the search by the user, who reads the same offers over and over again. If Google can skim the duplicates, showing only original ads, then the user will have an advantage. But here the question arises: according to which parameters should Google show an ad from site X and not the same ad from site Y?