[mtoddh]

I had the same annoyance with all of the 'company confidential' jobs ads on Monster, craigslist, etc. as well.

My solution was to develop a web crawler that scrapes job adds directly off of the 'careers' pages of company websites. This way I know their not fake ads and I can gather information on each of the companies that I care about, like number of employees that work there, awards the company has won like Best Place to Work, etc...). I wrote up a quick front-end to search the results - and voila - it's a way to bypass a lot of the job boards/recruiter spam entirely.

[BigglesZX]

That sounds fantastic! Is it released anywhere?

[mtoddh]

I have it set up at www.neekanee.com. I generally do scraping runs about once a week. I'm using MySQL's fulltext search on the back-end so it will only let you search for words with 3-chars or more right now (ie, searching for 'c' won't work but 'java' will..).