It has occurred to me that the operators not only allow to expand the searching power in “positive ways” but also make it possible to search for the absence of some values. To search for a field not to have any value, we need to know all possible values – and this is true for the “seniority” filter. The seniority codes …
The Power of the Hidden Operators
At this time, we have the best free LinkedIn search ever available, surpassing even Recruiter’s in several ways. Searching for skills, exact location, spoken language, fields of study, years of experience, and at school, are welcome (unplanned) additions to the search. The never-documented LinkedIn search operators offer filters that are otherwise paid – or are not offered at all – …
How to Verify Email Guesses on the Professional Network
“Which tools are best at finding emails”? – seems to be every other question from Recruiters on Facebook groups, always triggering multiple answers. But here is an approach that does not require any Chrome Extensions or other email-finding tools. If you are looking at someone’s LinkedIn profile or just know someone’s full name and the company name, you can start …
What You Are Missing (in Recruiter)
Are you struggling to find more matching potential candidates in LinkedIn Recruiter? The reason may be that you are using some search fields that restrict your results without your knowledge. I see two reasons for the search algorithm to challenge us: The original, kept in place, profile data design does not work well with the actual data that members enter, …
Enjoy the Operators While They Last #OSINT
The LinkedIn hidden search operators are back! Nobody knows for how long they will work this time (we enjoyed them for a year and a half a while ago). But they offer any LinkedIn user, whether basic or paid, significant searching power and an important filter unavailable with any subscription. LinkedIn never documented the operators, apart from the less-useful …
How to Google for Partial Words in URLs #OSINT
You cannot Google for a part of a word. (The Asterisk * means one or a few words in Google’s search syntax.) However, using the wonderful Google Custom (or Programmable) Search Engines (CSEs), you can search for partial words in the URLs. The way to do so is to take advantage of CSE URL templates. There, the Asterisk means “part …
Part of Github Just Went Private
Social Networks want to be found, so they make some information – most notably, profiles – public, visible to search engines. At the same time, they want members to join and sometimes pay for the search. They also worry about their members’ data privacy. It is a balance for each site – which pages and how much info to let …
Did You Know? Ten Google Tips for #OSINT Research
Here are ten less-known facts about Google search. (How many of these are you aware of? There are some subtleties there.) You can restrict page dates either by selecting them under “Tools” after searching or using the operators before: and after:. However, you will be missing the pages that did not clearly tell Googlebot about their dates. Lots of …
X-Ray for US Profiles: Solved
This Custom Search Engine – bit.ly/LinkedIn-US – searches for US-based LinkedIn profiles only. You can try to fool it, searching by a location in another country, but the results will stay on target. How does it do that? X-Ray practitioners know that we can narrow to a country – any but the US – using a two-letter country abbreviation, …
Virtual Travel for More Matching Results
Google has several location-related settings affecting the search results: It relies on your IP address to figure out your location, even if you search in incognito You can set a country (“region”) in the Advanced Search Dialog You can set a language, and if it is not English, the setting will positively affect searching in that country. (Google also has …