eQuest Expands Free Job Board Network, FreeBUG, to Include More European and Asian Pacific Communities Through Its Partnership With SimplyHired.

SAN RAMON, California - Network Now Reaches United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, India, and Australia.

As eQuest continues its drive into the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia Pacific an announcement was made today that it will include additional global coverage to one of its most popular services, FreeBUG. FreeBUG, an acronym for Free Board User Group, tracks and ranks candidate activity and responses from free job boards - based on over 200 million postings it delivered in the last twelve month period. Based on these reports eQuest includes only the best performing job boards in the FreeBUG network and offers unlimited access and job postings to its customers. Over 7 Million candidates responded to job advertisements from FreeBUG in 2008.

SimplyHired, one of the top job posting aggregation job sites in the United States, is FreeBUG’s top candidate producing site. SimplyHired is establishing strongholds in these same regions to increase global awareness of its services to both the candidate and employment communities. The combination of SimplyHired and eQuest will provide recruiters an easy and affordable way to attract talent in a new, borderless arena.

About eQuest

eQuest provides international job posting delivery, job board management and analytics services. Thousands of job boards are supported in the eQuest network, reaching over 180 countries and territories worldwide. eQuest provides the most complete candidate sourcing and tracking analysis for evaluating job board performance. eQuest is one of the most recognized and admired brands in the human resource industry. eQuest can be reached at www.equest.com.

About SimplyHired

With more than 5 million job listings worldwide and more than 5,000 job search partners, Simply Hired (www.SimplyHired.com) is the largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network. The company has exclusive partnerships with MySpace and LinkedIn as well as the largest set of professional applications on Facebook. The company has international sites in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Germany, Spain and France. Simply Hired has been lauded as one of the “50 Coolest Websites” by Time magazine and declared “Best of the Web” by Business Week. Simply Hired has raised US$17.7M in funding from News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media, Foundation Capital, Garage Technology Ventures and individual investors. The company is privately held and is based in Mountain View, California.

Media Contact: Jody Aikawa +1-925-275-3595 jody.aikawa@equest.com

Source: eQuest

Jody Aikawa of eQuest, +1-925-275-3595, jody.aikawa at equest.com