Would you like to see the dates of the search results on Google? By all means, it’s a useful piece of information. If you narrow a Google search to (any) date range, using the drop-down selection for the date range, the dates are shown. You can then also choose to sort by date if you wanted, to see the most recent results first. When a date …
Work Around New LinkedIn InMail Policy in 2015
In a few days from now LinkedIn is switching to taking away the InMail points for those InMails that were not answered. There has been lots of negative reaction to the change, and rightly so. Sure, if an InMail is spam, the recipient may not answer it. But the opposite is not true: if someone doesn’t answer the InMail, it doesn’t mean that the InMail …
Ten Favorite Tools Shared at Sourcing Chats in 2014
In 2014, our LinkedIn group – by far, the largest global community of people who are interested in Sourcing – reached 28K Members and the Boolean Strings Ning Network reached 7K members. Thanks to all for participating and sharing great content- and Happy Holidays! The Bi-Weekly Sourcing Chats on the Ning Network, moderated by Master Sourcer David Galley, have been well attended in 2014 and always had great …
Stop Using Boolean OR on Google
Here is the description of the Boolean operator OR from the Google’s help: OR: If you want to search for pages that may have just one of several words, include OR (capitalized) between the words. Without the OR, your results would typically show only pages that match both terms. Example: world cup location 2014 OR 2018 Many researchers routinely use the operator …
Custom Search Engines Hack: Get 1,000 Results
Google’s Custom Search Engines (CSEs) can be useful in many ways. They provide a way to hide advanced search operators from your colleagues who are less technically inclined; they don’t bug advanced researchers with annoying Captchas; and they provide some interesting possibilities beyond those of “regular” Google. Unfortunately, currently the “official” limit of the number of the search results in a CSE is …
Google Quick Answers
Many of you are familiar with Google’s operator define, useful for a quick lookup of an unfamiliar term. Unlike other operators, define doesn’t need a colon after it; here is an example: define SEO. Google includes a link along with the definition if there’s one specific website it “thinks” provides the best answer. If you are searching for something common, such as Engineering, it provides a …
Five Sourcing Tips I Learned From Others
Once in a while I run into a post outlining a sourcing tip that I didn’t know about, or hear a new tip in conversations. Today I’d like to point to some of those tips and thank my colleagues for sharing them. 1) The Facebook #Sourcing Tutorial by Balazs Paroczay . It’s not “just” a tip but a whole methodology of constructing Facebook Graph searches. Once …
Sourcing Certification EXAM Demo Sessions
Are you interested in joining the ranks of Certified Sourcing Professionals in 2014? Our final Sourcing Certification Exam period this year is coming up during the week of December 8, 2014. How do you decide whether you are ready to take the Exam? In brief: to pass the Exam requires good knowledge of Googling and Sourcing on Social Sites; familiarity with some productivity tools; and the ability …
Source Code Search Engines
As a follow-up to a previous post Sourcing Developers in [software] Source Code, I’d like to go over some alternatives to “plain” X-Raying for searching open source code. Google used to have advanced search that “understood” regular expressions for https://code.google.com/ but it was shut down in 2012. At this time the most advanced search you can do there is to search the Google-hosted code …
LinkedIn Basic Search is Galene – LIR Search is Lucene
It was comforting for some LinkedIn Recruiter users to hear about the search results discrepancies, shared previously in the posts Discrepancies in Search: LinkedIn Recruiter vs. Personal LinkedIn Basic Search is Semantic – LIR Search is NOT. Here is some feedback I got: “GREAT GREAT GREAT article on the discrepancies in search (LIR vs Personal LinkedIn). A few colleagues and I …