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The specific research questions guiding this study are: how do people search for job\u2010related information on the web? How effective are these searches? And how likely are job seekers to find an appropriate job posting or application?<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>The data used to examine these questions come from job seekers submitting job\u2010related queries to a major web search engine at three points in time over a five\u2010year period.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>Results indicate that individuals seeking job information generally submit only one query with several terms and over 45 percent of job\u2010seeking queries contain a specific location reference. 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