Jobster has the good fortune to work with two top notch VCs, Ignition Partners and Trinity Ventures.

Their portfolio companies are great places to work, so I thought I’d do what I could to make it easier for readers of my blog to learn more about job openings in their portfolio. If you’re someone I know, I’d be happy to provide a referral for these positions.

Using SearchMe, I built a form that searches the job openings in all of the Ignition Partners portfolio companies. I’ll be creating a similar form for Trinity’s portfolio shortly.

Search Ignition Jobs.

In the sidebar to the right of this blog, you can search my network using Google– instead of the entire web, you can search just the web sites of my most trusted friends and colleagues.

I constructed that form manually, but I’ve now built a simple web tool that automatically generates these forms for you, making it easy for anyone to construct their own specialized search forms on top of Google.

General purpose search engines are really bad at things like finding trustworthy reviews for specialized equipment. But if you’re an expert on a particular topic, like digital photography, you probably know the best places to find reviews. My hope is that SearchMe and tools like it will make it easier for bloggers and site authors to share that expertise and add an editorial voice to Google.

For now, I’m calling the tool SearchMe:
Try SearchMe

The tool is pretty simple right now– just enter the sites you want to search and past the generated HTML into your web site. One enhancement I plan to add is the ability to host the form on my site for those who can create links but not post arbitrary HTML.