Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 27, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A12 editor Shane Minkin 6977308 Winnipeg free press february 2001 computers Job search web Sites Benefit by downturn what with the constant reports of Lay bankruptcies and Nash a desist it May provide some Comfort to know that at least someone is benefiting from the shakeout in internet Compa Job search Sites Are in demand right posting enormous gains in web Page according to a Survey announced last week by Alexa Imp world wides Long the leading Job search site on the ranked 13th busiest of All web Sites in january up from 25th in the 2 career jumped from 92nd busiest on the web in december to 57th in for the 20 leading career Sites on the web in the same Overall traffic jumped nearly 50 per not All Dot corns Are said Marc an Alexa Job search Sites Are Richard chief executive of said that Job seekers were flocking to his site in record numbers and that his business was what were seeing is Job seek ers Are worried 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also called the vanity the dating scenes secret weapon Google by Hilary Macgregor los Angeles about two months ago a Friend set me up on a Blind we met for he was Brainy and he had no overt hang tics or crippling and he had a thick head of which is something to take into account when youre still single in your in he seemed like a great he told me he was a no self respecting woman in this town believes that out of deference to his i didst even ask if id recognize any of his i googled i typed his name into my computer and cast my virtual net into i used the hottest search engine around to dredge through Over a billion web pages in less than a i almost fell off my chair when i found that he actually my detective instincts Are nothing unusual for a girl on the prowl in big City you never know if a hot Guy who buys you an Apple Martini in a hip bar will turn out to be an unemployed bisexual vacuum cleaner Salesman with two six children and a rap Sheet out to googling is a tool that every savvy single should have in her i always Google before it is a said a 24yearold researcher at a High tech Maga Zine in san who asked not to be named for fear that someone would Google one time i googled actually nex ised and googled in in research and found out that my Blind Date had done the same for they did not go out turned out that googling each other was about the Only thing they had in when Bonnie an Oakland met her photographer Boyfriend at work two years she didst know much about so before they went she googled she Stum bled on a lengthy Magazine profile that mentioned his astrological i amazed him on our first Date by you Are a she he How do you know and i i dont you just seem like he was blown she didst Tell him shed googled him until two years they Are still so what is a Google any mathematician or schoolchild knows that a Googol is a one followed by 100 Sergey president and Confounder of Google was a math major and chose the name because it is a metaphor for the vast reach of the web search Cindy Vic Epresi Dent of corporate communications for the Moun Tain vie based said there is no Way to track How Many people use the Google search engine to conduct Anonymous internet but judging by letters and she lots of it is going people have been googling each other for a Long Mccaffrey but it has just come into its own As a my anecdotal research would indicate that the profile of a typical dating Google is this younger thaa in the computer or research speaking girls Google and Guys Google said is a vanity men said they dont tend to because if a woman is a no bad data in the world could forestall a Google is my search engine of said Michael a los Angeles computer but i think if you talk to women rather than there Are More they Are More Likely to is he a serial killer if Guys do i think the Only thing they might be thinking maybe Shes an and that might be a Good of googling has its sometimes your hits could be for someone else with the same which can Lead to awkward and sometimes you give yourself away Over which can seem and sometimes dragging a net through cyberspace just Doest pull much people who have common names can get lost in the people with unusual names can be completely to be is Only one of myriad tools for background searches on the those with corporate accounts said they will frequently use an online database available Only to paid to find out if their dates have criminal Nice houses or big mortgage googling is also dangerously once you go Public with your the practice can spread like a and in severe cases even Lead to Google Lexes fear of being extremely moral people who claim they never would have thought of engaging in such furtive internet snooping suddenly have to dismount their High its open warfare they counter and Back to my unassuming thirty something Blind Date turned out to be a highly pedigreed easterner with multiple movie he had sold single scripts for More Money than for a armed with my new i Felt Emprow i wait until our next so i could Lead the conversation hither and and play him like a Fine Spanish i took notes on some of his More notable movie thinking perhaps i could weave them seamlessly into our dinner banter and throw him Ever so Ever so off perhaps id throw out a cryptic allusion Over and deliver a conversation stopping Zinger Over the Prospect was exhilarating the i fessed that he when i told him what id two dates after he delivered some Amaz ing insights and uncanny observations about my old Boyfriend in a tone of uncharacteristic author he admitted he had looked up my old Boyfriend Only he got the wrong now that los Angeles times ;