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Sales Navigator Revelations and Function Codes
The death of X-Ray prompts everyone to study LinkedIn’s search closer. LinkedIn’s Sales Navigator has different algorithms from both Premium and LinkedIn Recruiter. There is no good reason for that. Different Developer teams fell out of sync. Sales Navigator “thinks” most of LinkedIn. (I am being sarcastic.) It has a huge population of 1,665M+ profiles. What are the 665M profiles …
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ChatGPT Bing vs Others for Site Summaries
Of Bing Chat, ChatGPT Bing plugin, Google BARD, and Google SGE (I’m on the waiting list), my favorite so far is the ChatGPT Bing plugin. It seems best at digesting website content. (That said, I do not think anyone has come up with even a design of a workable combination of web search and AI-generated content. Sites plainly put both …
Sourcing Mathematica in Closed Networks
I want to share my experience sourcing a Mathematica Engineer (Palo Alto) on Reddit, Discord, and a professional forum. I followed advice from Wim Dammans and Erin Mathew, who are experts in this sort of sourcing. Here is what I learned. Mathematica Engineers working outside of Wolfram’s Mathematica are rare primarily because it is expensive and not open-source software (here …
LinkedIn Software Crisis (a Summary)
A few days ago, many functions on LinkedIn broke for several hours (you can always – and hopefully will be able to – check on Twitter whether something is going on globally). LinkedIn mostly got it back together to the previous state. This post is about what remains broken. A lot, unfortunately – I don’t think it has been that …
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Why LinkedIn Is Unavoidable and Irreplaceable
For the majority of sourcing tasks, LinkedIn provides the best database to use: It is the largest professional database (for comparison, only a tiny percent of Facebook or Twitter users have added their job title and employer to the bio) It has self-entered data, the latest from each member It offers many decent search filters. If you are considering an …
LinkedIn Boolean Is Crazy
Searching on LinkedIn costs many Recruiters low self-esteem. When you see results you did not expect, you may blame yourself for searching “the wrong way.” But it is rarely the case. What has been happening on LinkedIn and LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) lately is beyond my (reasonably high) IQ. Let us compare some searches on LinkedIn.com and in LIR. We vaguely …
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 …