David Galley and I are obsessed with tools, hacks, links, and sites. On our Slack, we have a channel called “Interesting Links” that gets populated nearly daily. Where do we get the info? Facebook Groups, Recruiting Brainfood Newsletter, shares in Messenger by colleagues, tweets with the hashtag #OSINT, RSS feeds from selected sources, and always, Googling. Once in a while, …
Three Topics? And Nine Tools
Happy New Year, readers, and thanks for following my blog! What would you like me to write about? Please name three topics or questions of interest in the comments – thanks! In the meantime, here is some recent news. 1. Google launches Question Hub – https://questionhub.withgoogle.com – to allow everyone to “answer” questions by submitting URLs. I imagine Google will …
Five Tools to Scrape Search Results
When you X-Ray on Google or search on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Github (etc.), you see results that are links with previews (called “snippets” in Google). The problem is that snippets never provide enough information to qualify a result. You can try very hard to phrase your search yet you should always expect false positives. It is time-consuming to click and …
Diversity Identifiers
Due to the last few months’ global events, diversity hiring and diversity recruiting training are the two topics getting a lot – if not most – Social Media attention within our industry. If your search includes a preference for reaching out to diverse candidates, expect it to take twice as long, unless you have built a diversity sourcing part of …
Nice! #opentowork is Public
Good news! We woke up to #opentowork LinkedIn members becoming visible in Google: I am pretty sure Google picks the hashtag from shares, so results will miss many, but – it will find many too! Here is a CSE to find the profiles: https://bit.ly/Opentowork By the way, I am open to work. 🙂 I am looking for new clients for …
Sixteen Techniques of Interest
I want to share sixteen tools and techniques that have impressed me in the last few months. They should be of interest to recruiters as well as OSINT people, I hope. Consider them to be techniques that you did not know you should use. Outwit Hub is a veteran tool. And it is the only way to scrape your first-level …
My Best Diversity Strings
Due to the need for OR searches, Custom Search Engines (CSEs) is a handy tool to use in diversity sourcing projects. From my tests, this Diversity CSE performs better than any other I authored, but please try it and let me know, OK? Like any other CSE, it needs to be tested using diverse searches to see how well it …
Three New Custom Search Engines
I admire the evolving technology of Google Custom Search Engines (CSEs). By guessing some clever terms and operator combinations, over time, we have been able to un-dig (for example) loads of contact lists of passive candidates within every industry we get sourcing requests in. The best part of CSEs is that they make the web structured. In a sense, CSEs …
Custom Search Boolean Formula
I have run across Boolean Cookies (the ones you eat). Going to order some! Discoveries await you if you study Google Custom Search Engines. Very interestingly, as I have determined bases on tests, Custom Search Engine more: operators support a different order of Boolean operators compared to Google. On Google, ORs have the highest priority On CSEs, ANDs have the …
40 Custom Search Engines
eBook, soon to be released: Custom Search – Discover more: A Complete Guide to Google Programmable Search Engines (Amazon; publisher: Francis and Taylor) Here are most of the currently working Custom Search Engines I have created. The links have been spread over various posts and conversations, and I felt it was time to bring them all together. (To my disappointment, …