Method of doing business by identifying customers of competitors through world wide web searches of job listing databases

摘要

A business method for identifying business competitors' customers through Web searches of job listing databases or job boards and company Web sites where jobs are also often posted directly. Items such as competitors' business names, product names, acronyms, etc., are used as keywords and the search engine results provide an index of potential customers who are posting job listings for employees skilled in competitive products. Once the Web sites and/or Web pages posting job listings of these potential customers are located, additional information relative to doing business with said potential customers may be extracted from such pages and Web sites through “spider” or “Web crawler” routines. Such additional information may be: the potential customer locations posting said job listings to thereby identify customer locations using competitors' products; the quantity of the jobs posted in said job listings to thereby quantify the potential customers' product needs; or the names, email addresses or phone numbers of people within the potential customers' company having job needs to thereby identify potential contacts within the organization.