Finding a job online [2] was all the rage five years ago. And while the Web remains a useful tool in determing what kind of work [3] you'd like to do -- and finding the perfect job -- a research paper [4] penned by Christine Fountain at the University of Washington indicates that the Web might not be the job-finding tool it once was.

Scheduled to be presented at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting [5] next week, Fountain's research indicates that people searching for work online in 1998 had slightly better odds of finding a job -- but that the advantage disappeared by 2000.

It seems that the days of scanning resumes [6] are over.