Microsoft Buys CareerBuilder; Google Interested In SimplyHired

May 9, 2007 at 3:19pm ET by Barry Schwartz

Microsoft buys stake in CareerBuilder from News.com reports that Microsoft has purchased a minority equity stake in CareerBuilder.com, a job search site. In addition, CareerBuilder and MSN Careers have continued their partnership deal where CareerBuilder will be the exclusive job search engine for MSN Careers.

Earlier this week, Google In Talks To Acquire SimplyHired from TechCrunch reported that Google was in talks with SimplyHired, another job search engine. Dion Lim, the president of SimplyHired told Techcrunch that there is “lots of interest in us,” when asked about the Google acquisition rumors.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Microsoft Buys CareerBuilder; Google Interested In SimplyHired

David, May 10th, 2007 at 12:11 pm ET:

I like Simply Hired as it works with Linked In so well.

Career Builder is such a dinosaur and possibly a way for Microsoft to build a relationship with local newspapers who use Career Builder.

I’d go with Simply Hired – new is good.

David

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