I was reading Charlene Li’s excellent account of the launch of HotJobs crawling capability when I spotted that Jobster is buying WorkZoo. According to Charlene:

I spoke with Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg on Monday, and he described their vision of how WorkZoo will allow users to expand their search beyond their network of jobs on Jobster proper and see “every” job. WorkZoo has its cut out for them – in previous testing, they lagged significantly in their parsing ability compared to Indeed.com and Simply Hired. But this combination of Jobster and WorkZoo makes sense as a combined service – it’s also is similar to the partnership that currently exists between professional social networking service LinkedIn and SimplyHired.

The consolidation has already begun. Interesting.

John Battelle said it best in “A Good Idea, Indeed. You’re Simply Hired “: Yahoo Hotjobs is entering the Jobs search arena.

“Yahoo seems to be taking a cue from Indeed and Simply Hired. Ouch. (Thanks, Richard)”

Joel Cheesman actually posted on the topic before John, and there is an interesting discussion in the comments of his post.

Let’s see what Monster.com and CarreerBuilder’s next moves are in this new segment.

Update: SiliconBeat added their take on the news