The 40+ Sourcing Tools We Cannot Live Without

We’ve had a great list of tools contributed by 80+ members of the Boolean Strings LinkedIn group to the question:

“What are the sourcing tools you can’t live without? Please list some favorites.” and another 30 or so on the Boolean Ning Network – http://booleanstrings.ning.com/forum/topics/what-are-the-sourcing-tools

I thought I’d list some of the tools I use daily, to add to the discussion. Of course, there’s some overlap with those listed already. I am only listing free tools here, or tools where there’s a nice free option. Here you go.

URL shortening

• Bit.ly

Storage and sharing

• Dropbox

Browser Add-Ons (Chrome and FireFox)

• Fastest Chrome
• Fastest Fox
• Clickable Links
• iMacros

“Manage search engines” in Chrome

Parsing, Filtering, and Sorting

• Outwit Hub
• Outwit Docs
• Broadlook Contact Capture
• Free tools from eGrabber
• Email Extractor

Search Engines

• Google
• Bing
• Blekko
• Duckduckgo
• Yandex

Custom Search Engines

Here are some CSE’s we’ve built:

• Hidden Profiles
• Emails in Resumes
• SourceCon 2011 Challenge #1 — Julia Tverskaya (Software Engineers in the Bay Area)
• http://hiddenresumes.com

People and Company search

• Zoominfo
• Data.com (formerly Jigsaw)
• Implu.com – info on public companies
• Manta.com
• Consulting Companies
• Link Silicon Valley
• Pipl.com (the old version)
• Whois
• Yahoo People Search

Real Time Search

• Topsy
• https://brandmentions.com/ – Social listening tool
• Google and LinkedIn Alerts

Past Search

• Way Back Machine

Twitter

• http://manageflitter.com
• Friendorfollow

Job Sharing

• Jobvite
• Bullhorn Reach

And finally,

General Purpose (thanks to Martin Lee for contributing!)

• Coffee Mug

Please let me know if I missed something really cool. Thanks!