When Google feels like our queries are too complex and suspects that they are sent by a robot, it throws a captcha (a squiggly word with a box below it). This supposedly protects Google from being misused by non-humans, i.e. computer programs, that may find and scrape too much information too quickly. If you are a human presented with a …
How-To: A Google-Plus Custom Search Engine
Google’s Custom Search Engines (CSE) provide us with a way to access Google’s search index in a focused manner. At the core of the tool is X-Raying; any CSE starts with the identification of the site(s) we would like to narrow our search to, providing a way to hide the Boolean operator site: from the end user. The CSE creation …
LinkedIn Skills and “Related Skills” Teaser
The Skills page has been removed. But skills are present in LinkedIn, not just on members’ profiles but also on some other pages. That could be useful for sourcing. Company pages may list skills that their employees have, even along with the numbers of people with a particular skill. University pages show skill that their University grads have: This is …
LinkedIn Numbers by Country
LinkedIn doesn’t easily let you search beyond your network; it requests the searches to be narrowed down by keywords if you want to do that. The same is true for paid accounts, including Recruiter. However… I was able to do a search (today, 11/15/2013) and see the LinkedIn member numbers by country for all the major countries, the ones with …
Visualize Success
It was a pleasure delivering the free “Boolean Solved” webinar, sponsored by HiringSolved, yesterday. We had a huge number of people – 1,057 people signed up! – from 39 countries: AE, AR, AU, BE, BR, BY, CA, CH, CN, CO, CZ, DE, DK, EC, ES, FR, GB, GH, HU, IE, IL, IN, IT, NL, PH, PK, PL, RO, RU, SA, …
Boolean AND Non-Boolean Search on LinkedIn
Did you know that not all LinkedIn search fields accept Boolean AND-OR-NOT expressions and some have different syntax than searching by keywords? Understanding the correct syntax is critical is executing searches and interpreting the search results. This is a quick overview of the variations in the supported search syntax in LinkedIn search dialogs. The three syntax variations are: Boolean search, supporting AND …
How To Add Your Facebook Friends on LinkedIn, Google-Plus, and Twitter
Some of the Yahoo services, including search, seem to be staying unattended lately; its “contacts” have some shaky parts as well. However, some of the Yahoo “contacts” functionality can be used for the purpose of connecting with friends across networks. If you wanted to connect with some of your Facebook friends on other social networks, here is how to …
Google-Plus Sourcing Webinar – October 30, 2013
Google-Plus presents excellent tools for searching, sourcing, and reaching out, and it’s time to master them. Let the Facebook numbers not fool you; Google-Plus is the second top place on the Internet to figure out, if you are looking for professionals, after LinkedIn. Waiting further to use it for sourcing will put you behind others who already use it to …
Google-Plus vs. Rapportive
Rapportive is a Sourcer’s favorite tool that allows to find the “social footprint” for someone by pasting an email address into a Gmail new message. It was acquired by LinkedIn; the Chrome extension shows the last update done back in September 2012, which certainly means that it’s not being actively maintained… The tools collects the data, based on email addresses, in its own …
Bing vs. Yahoo Search – Today
While Yahoo.com is considered to be one of the top sites that people access for web search, right behind Google and Bing, it has long lost its own search engine due to its business decisions, and has been “powered by Bing” since 2010. Since that switch, Yahoo has not provided any additional or different search results, compared to Bing. What …