28 August 2010

ColdFusion demise on Seek

ColdFusion and others seem to have fallen into a special category on Seek now.

It seems that if you search for something that isn’t significant enough, then it will give you what it thinks you are better off looking at.

So my daily seek ColdFusion email subscription, is now about 30 jobs, of which you would be lucky to find of those has ColdFusion at all.

Seek seems to think I should be moving to .NET most of the positions I get are .NET, but it’s a mix with Java & php & others.

Try it yourself, I think it’s a stupid decision of Seek, I just want it to find what I’m looking for not what you think I’m interested in. Now without going through all 30 adds someone looking can’t really tell if any of them have a ColdFusion requirement at all.

Try the link below

It’s a search for ColdFusion

2,750 jobs

See Seek Results Here

Searching for ASP.NET only returns 835

Hopefully if we make enough noise they might fix it.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would like to think that everyone who thinks that this is wrong by seek to complain to them.

One or two will not make a difference, but a hundred just might.

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Marcel said...

@Dale
Apparently they are on the case I got the following from them today:
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Hi Marcel,

Thanks for your feedback and bringing it to our attention.

We are aware of this and our IT team currently are testing a release that is due to go out in a few weeks which should fix the problem.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused we hope to have a resolution soon.

Kind Regards,

Corine (Seek)