In recent years there has been a great demand for information about job listings, company reviews and employment data. Recruiters, consultants, analysts and employment-related service providers, amongst others, are aggressively scraping job-posting sites to extract that type of information. Recall, for example, the long-running, landmark hiQ scraping litigation over the scraping of public LinkedIn data.
The two most recent disputes regarding scraping of employment and job-related data were brought by Jobiak LLC (“Jobiak”), an AI-based recruitment platform. Jobiak filed two nearly-identical scraping suits in California district court alleging that competitors unlawfully scraped its database and copied its optimized job listings without authorization. (Jobiak LLC v. Botmakers LLC, No. 23-08604 (C.D. Cal. Filed Oct. 12, 2023); Jobiak LLC v. Aspen Technology Labs, Inc., No. 23-08728 (C.D. Cal. Filed Oct. 17, 2023)).
Jobiak specializes in AI-based optimization services for publishing job postings on “Google for Jobs.” According to Jobiak’s website, Jobiak’s AI-platform “optimizes for over 25 ‘signals’ that factor into Google for Jobs rankings” to achieve improved search results for job posts. It goes on to explain that the “complex schema that Google requires for your job to appear on Google for Jobs” requires certain coding expertise and system level access that may be beyond many recruiters or others. Beyond these services, Jobiak also offers its ‘All Jobs’ AI-based jobs...
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