UPDATED 01:04 EDT / APRIL 14 2017

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Google quietly launches a new job applicant tracking service

Google Inc. has quietly introduced a new job advertising service called “Google Hire” that appears to have been developed by Bebop, a startup created by VMware Inc. co-founder Diane Greene that the search giant acquired in 2015.

Neither company has made any official announcement, Bebop’s website is now advertising job vacancies at the hire.withgoogle.com domain, which also hosts a sign-in page for the new service.

Axios.com, which first reported the news, describes Google Hire as a “job applicant tracking system that appears to rival services like Greenhouse and Lever.” It adds that the service is being developed by Google’s enterprise and cloud business unit, which is headed by Greene.

There are only a handful of job vacancies listed on Google Hire at present, including openings at Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. subsidiary DramaFever and startups Medisas Inc. and Poynt Co. However, it’s not possible to sign into the service or create an account via the home page at present, which suggests it’s available only as a limited preview to select customers at this time.

There are other clues that Google believes it can improve the job application and hiring process, though. In November, the company announced the alpha launch of a Cloud Jobs application programming interface, which it described as a “machine learning service that provides the necessary lingua franca between the job seeker and employer job postings in order to improve the hiring process.” More specifically, the Cloud Jobs API allows companies to add job search functionality to their websites that uses Google’s machine learning services to anticipate the positions job seekers are looking for and recommend positions for them based on their preferences.

It’s not clear if the Cloud Jobs API is related to this new service. Moreover, Google has never revealed exactly what Bebop has been working on. When it acquired the company in 2015, Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai simply described the startup as a “new development platform” for building and maintaining new enterprise applications. “We think this will help many more businesses find great applications, and reap the benefits of cloud computing,” he wrote in a blog post.

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