From
THE NEXT WORDS ARE A LINK Employment Situation Technical Note (a link I already gave) we see that
People are classified as unemployed if they meet all of the following criteria: they had no employment during the reference week; they were available for work at that time; and they made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons laid off from a job and expecting recall need not be looking for work to be counted as unemployed. The unemployment data derived from the household survey in no way depend upon the eligibility for or receipt of unemployment insurance benefits.
(emphasis mine).
So your claim that only people collecting benefits are classified as "looking" is false, though I'm curious as to how you got that ridiculous idea. If you had done any research at all you would have seen it was wrong.
Further proof....from
THE NEXT WORDS ARE A LINK Table A-1. Employment status of the civilian population by sex and age we see that the not seasonally adjusted number of Unemployed was 13,541,000 for January 2012, with the reference week 8-14 Jan. Turning to the DOL news release on UI claims
THE NEXT WORDS ARE A LINK News Release we see that for the week ending Jan 14, the total number of people receiving benefits from Federal and State programs was 7,655,223 (ok I was mistaken, it's a little more than half) But what's your answer for the discrepancy? It seems clear to anyone with a 1st grade education that the larger number means they're including more than just the smaller number.