At the end of the 1980s, a time when commercial Internet services had yet to appear in Japan, Recruit established an Internet connection by contracting for a 64Kbps international line across the Pacific to the University of Hawaii.

The US company Yahoo! Inc. was established on March 1, 1995. Two days after that, on March 3, Recruit installed its own web server and opened the practical/experimental Internet site Mix Juice. First of all, table of content information from the latest magazine issues was shown, and the following year net services were inaugurated with "RECRUIT BOOK on the Net" (now Rikunabi), "For rent rakuraku heya sagashi" (now SUUMO), etc.

In 1999, Mix Juice was reborn as ISIZE. The name ISIZE is a combination of the personal pronoun "I" plus the word "SIZE," and the service aims to help people achieve a lifestyle matched to their own individual character. Recruit net services thus entered a phase full-scale commercialization.

In 2006, the members of the "BI Collaboration Committee" (a group active within the company in the area of "business and IT collaboration") and the members of "Tatami Labs" (the R&D unit of group production company Recruit Media Communications (RMC)) came together to establish the empirical research institute Media Technology Labs. By bringing together and leveraging the knowledge and achievements accumulated in the research of each of these members within the Recruit Group, MTL is seeking to create tomorrow's media communications so that many different kinds of people can collaborate and evolve together.