At the intersection of Search and Podcasting I came across a site worth looking at. Landed.FM is a Internet radio site with a podcast site feature. But what’s really novel is how it supports the real company behind it, WorkZoo.com, a job board  and search engine.

On first blush, WorkZoo looks a very bare bones site. (Don’t be fooled by the noticably weak branding and typography.) It’s amazing feature is the way it displays a map of the concentration of jobs in the arre you are searching! Technically called the GIS (for geographic information systems) this works off a sophisticated algorithm that allows the searcher to get more than just results or hits from a search engine.

You can move the cross-hairs of your target area on the map by moving the cursor (Say from Arizona to Colorado) and the results change. All this happens very, very fast.

The jobs are displayed graphically as color-coded dots. At the top of the page, you can then tweak the search fields to display results (a) by distance from the zip code you input, (b) by state, and (c) by how recently the jobs were posted. An advanced search is also possible but this lacks the ability to search in multiple zip codes of states, for instance. I would like to be able to use multiple key words, or sort by years of experience, salary etc.

Like Blinkx desktop search utility I discovered yesterday, WorkZoo saves time by simplifying the search process. By some coincidence, WorkZoo and Blinkx originated in the U.K. but are now competing on this side of the pond.