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Online child care assistance: Employers help working parents reach babysitters.

Parents value good babysitters like precious gems, and now they're using the Internet to find some nearby.

Working parents are logging on to Web sites like Sittercity.com, which "is the Match.com of child care," says CEO Genevieve Thiers, who founded SitterCity in 2001. Like the online dating sites, SitterCity connects like-minded folks in the same geographic area to see whether they harmonize.

SitterCity has profiles and contact information for 168,000 babysitters and nannies across the country, and about half of them also do pet-sitting. To a parent who ha

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