[65827]

You're wrong because you can't even get to the "search problem", many of the current popular job boards are such unusable garbage that it's effectively impossible to wade through them and apply to jobs without inadvertently having your data stolen or spyware installed, it's that terrible. Something like monster.com or dice.com is more dangerous than the deep web at this point.

As much as I hate Google, someone has to come along and become the authority to put these all in one place and hopefully drive all these terrible sites/recruiters out of business.

[jcranberry]

Yes, it is a search problem, but in the sense of a matching problem or finding maxima given a dataset. The parent commenter was illustrating the difference between the problems of having a paucity of data (applicants) and assigning an accurate value ("trust") to determine the data with the greatest value (most qualified or desired applicants).

[tacostakohashi]

Maybe for you it's a search problem, but for the customer, the person paying the recruitment + advertising fees (the employer), it's a trust problem.

[damerms]

Are you saying all job boards or the major ones? Do you use niche job boards?