This is a very important point for a sourcer or anybody who uses search engines. Google, Yahoo, and Bing will never show more that 1,000 results per search. Many of us know that, but with that comes the fact that an announced approximate numbers above 1,000 cannot be trusted. Any “number of results” displayed by each of these search engines …
Twitter is a Tool for What?
Do you know of all the ways to use Twitter? Let’s do a simple search and we will find out that… Twitter is a powerful tool for learning & sharing. … Twitter is a great tool for small business – especially restaurants… Twitter is a really great tool for finding business Twitter is a great tool for communicating with current and …
How to Expand People Search Options for a Basic User
Here’s a LinkedIn tip. If you copy a people search URL from a premium member and use it for a basic member, it will work just fine. Of course, you will need to decide whether you are up for using it or not. Let me illustrate it. Compare the two sides of the screenshot below . They were both created using the URL http://bit.ly/dB7cqY (paste it in your browser). On …
Twitter Tune-Up – Thursday at 1 pm Eastern
Twitter for Sourcing, Recruiting & Marketing – Thursday, June 24 – 1:00 PM ET
Reliable Email Address Verification
How do you find someone’s email address? Using the symbol @ in searches on Google is useless since it’s ignored along with most of the special characters. We know ways to figure out a company email pattern via clever Google searches using the asterisk * (ask Gary Cozin ). Unfortunately, our methods may not work in some cases. Besides, some companies, …
Top 4 Reasons to Source Candidates on the Internet
Why we must use the Internet to source candidates: To use its vast resources and get ahead of the competition To find candidates that we would not find otherwise To communicate with potential candidates in a network context To cross-reference prospects so that we are on the phone with the right people
How Many Resumes Are There on the Internet?
Here is a cool blog post contest. Post a blog (anywhere) with an estimate of the number of resumes on the Internet and win a ticket to #TRUsource in Atlanta. Please email Geoff Webb at [email protected] with a reference to your post; please also share on the Boolean Strings network. Also, to help get this off the ground, I am …
Deep Web Search Using Google
For many of us, Deep Web means pages that Google – or any other search engine – can’t find. This is almost true, but not exactly true. Deep web consists of dynamic links, password-protected sites, pages with no links leading to them, and a few other kinds of “hidden” pages. It turns out (and you may have experienced that) that …
Searching LinkedIn From Google: Hit and Miss
Many of us X-ray LinkedIn from Google. If we are looking for profiles with certain keywords, we use the string site:linkedin.com inurl:in OR inurl:pub -inurl:dir -inurl:jobs <your keywords here> … Strangely though, Google forgets to add many words that belong to all LinkedIn profiles as keywords. If you search for “Public profile powered by”, industry, connections, current, past, etc., Google …
LinkedIn Profiles: an In-Depth Look – Webinar on June 8th
If a LinkedIn member wishes not to have a public profile, LinkedIn promptly removes the info from the Web. However, did you know that what you see marked as private profiles in search results has nothing to do with personal privacy settings? The majority of LinkedIn profiles are public and can be viewed – without upgrading your account. Come to my …