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Frequently Asked Questions |
| Why are some postings, not postings? Our search engine sometimes mistakes job descriptions for job postings. This is an issue we are working on. |
| Why do some career links go to missing pages? Sometimes the pages have been removed since our last search and they are simply no longer there.
In some cases (for example Adobe.com) their dynamic page generation uses a "visitor id" as part of the page address. The result is we cannot give you the right page address, because it is different for every visitor. |
| Why are some sites not indexed? There are a number of potential reasons. - Our career search engine is in beta and it is not yet able to find all the jobs. Sites that only provide career access though a search form are an issue we are working on.
- Sites have the right to block search engines and we honour that right. Honda and Cisco are two companies that do this.
- The site may not have been submitted to our database.
- We only index "corporate" sites. In addition to the home page we expect a corporate or contact page with the company address, and a "Careers" page linking to their job postings. Sites that do not provide this may not be indexed.
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| Why are some postings missing for a site? To index a posting we depend on extracting certain information from the posting to recognize it as a posting and then to add it to the database so it can be retrieved. We do not index posting for which we cannot determine the location or a job title. |
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Fixes and Updates Log |
| July 2: | Duplicate postings. We have improved our ability to avoid duplicate postings. Duplication should begin to decrease in the next couple of days and be substantially improved by July 9. |
| June 10: | We are back! The crawler ran smoothly on Sunday, June 8th. We now have almost 5,000 jobs listed. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience. |
| June 6: | The lights are on, but nobody is home.
Our crawler was knocked out when our hosting provider did a software upgrade to the server.
After weeks of testing and trying work-a-rounds we have still not been able to identify and fix the problem.
We are currently in the process of moving to another server.
We are also setting up a mirror site with a different service provider to prevent any significant outages in the future.
Our sincere apologies for this interruption in service. |
| March 6: | Redundant postings. We have a flood of redundant postings this week because of a change made to the crawler. Please be patient, we expect them to disappear within a day or two (they age and die). The good news is we do have many more unique postings! |
| March 6: | OK, we know - the last round of fixes broke the problem reporting. It works now. Keep those suggestions coming. |
| Mar 1: | Members can add now their resume to our database for employers to search. They can also track their favorite postings. Some bugs in the members area are fixed. |
| February 11: | Many improvements will be added this week. |
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| October 3: | Members can now change their Email address. Thanks to the member that pointed out this problem. |
| Sept. 12: | We now have several crawlers running. This should keep results more up to date. |
| August 30: | We have added support for "and" and "or" search constructs. "And" was, and still is, implied. "Or" was, and still is, the forward slash (/) but now "or" can be used in its place. Now "and" and "or" do not mess up the search. Examples:
software and developer is equivalent to software developer
software or java is equivalent to software/java |
| August 29: | We have been working on behind the scenes issues like reliability of the search engine crawls and are seeing progress in this area. This will be reflected by more up-to-date results. |
| August 15: | We have added a "suggestion box" to some pages, your input is welcome. |
| August 14: | The "Browse" counts have been fixed, along with accessing some of the province results. |
| July 31: | We have added a "priority" value to sites added by users. These sites are included in searches more frequently than sites found by the search engine. (It does NOT change the results listing order.) |
| July 31: | The last few weeks have been spent in tuning the search engine- excluding "false positives" and including more jobs. Still more work to do. |
| July 17: | Member Searches now includes a "Since" field. This allows searches to span specific time intervals: 1-3 days, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year and "Since" the last search |
| July 17: | Now listing update/fixes on the help page in reverse chronological order. |
| July 9: | Member Searches now include automated search with Email delivery. The first Email delivery of results was today. |