<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/055fd846-b8ee-43da-b289-59b2cae165fb/C5ECAB2A-11F6-4D3F-AFE6-97D57C66C64F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070103_369308.htm?chan=search" href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070103_369308.htm?chan=search" style="font-size: 11px;">www.businessweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070103_369308.htm?chan=search">niche job-search sites are turning up the competitive heat on online recruitment stalwarts like Monster.com, CareerBuilder.com, and Yahoo's (<A href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=YHOO" rel=ticker>YHOO</A>) HotJobs.com.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070103_369308.htm?chan=search">Niche sites controlled about 64% of the online job-search market in 2006, up from 39% in 2004, according to Gordon Borrell, chief executive officer of consultancy Borrell Associates.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070103_369308.htm?chan=search">Some of the Big Three may need to gobble up successful niche sites, catering to unique audiences, or sites that offer interactive features. "We are planning to be a consolidator," says Doug Klinger, president of Monster North America (see BusinessWeek.com, 9/6/05, <A href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2005/tc2005097_6440_tc119.htm">"The Job of Challenging Monster"</A>). </blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070103_369308_page_2.htm" href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070103_369308_page_2.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.businessweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070103_369308_page_2.htm">Search engine Google (<A href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?symbol=GOOG" rel=ticker>GOOG</A>), which already lets users search for jobs through its Google Base, might want to get deeper into online job search, which accounts for one-fourth of all online ad revenues, says Borrell.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2007/tc20070103_369308_page_2.htm">"It's the dance of the elephants, and Google is without a dance partner." </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C5ECAB2A-11F6-4D3F-AFE6-97D57C66C64F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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