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Monster’s new ‘power-user’ offering that has gotten a lot of attention on bulletin boards like ERE also seemed to have no impact as it was not mentioned in Stifel’s 12/3 press release on Monster.
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Other job board technologies I’ve tried (standard Monster, Dice) suffer from the same weakness – too many results. Enter Monster’s new “Power Search” facility. I’m not privy to Monster’s source code, but the search results (see below) reflect what you’d expect from an LSI based engine.
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