3. "irina shamaeva" linkedin OR twitter OR
google+ OR facebook OR blog OR
"sourcing certification"
irina shamaeva 2013 conference
sourcing
4.
Keywords, phrases in “”; remove unwanted
with the minus; include “one of” with OR
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
https://support.google.com/websearch/an
swer/136861 - search operators
Careful! Docs get obsolete fast
http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/insidese
arch/tipstricks/all.html - at least 2 hints are
outdated.
7. How far is Amsterdam from Paris?
How many people live in San Francisco?
Who invented the Internet?
How many km are in a mile?
$100 in pounds
time in Sydney
--- But it’s not so easy to find profiles
matching a job description!
8. Tip: Use local Google for local
(international) search
Google Poland https://www.google.pl
translate engineer to polish
translate engineer to Chinese
search for the translation:
› https://www.google.com/search?q=工程师
9. name what you are looking to find
[in a way that others would name it]
Example: Midwestern United States
Search for: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and
Wisconsin
Put phrases in "“ -- "North Dakota"
10.
Imagine what you are going to find
Example. Suppose we are looking for a
list of professionals with contact info;
We are going to find people's names,
titles, email domains, etc.
11.
instead of:
› lists of management consulting professionals
or, even instead of:
› list name title company phone management
consultant
12.
Do use something like:
› Mary Pat John James
› "Senior" manager... accountant... etc.
› deloitte accenture
› 913 OR 785 OR 620 OR 316
13. Mary Pat John James deloitte accenture
capgemini senior 913 OR 785 OR 620 OR
316
deloitte accenture capgemini 913 785
620 316
"deloitte.com" "accenture.com"
"capgemini.com" 913 785 620 316
14. AND is not an operator
Compare:
› "deloitte.com" AND "accenture.com" "list of
attendees" texas gov
› "deloitte.com" And "accenture.com" "list of
attendees" texas gov
› "deloitte.com" and "accenture.com" "list of
attendees" texas gov
15.
There’s no need for parentheses; Google
ignores them
› ("deloitte.com" OR "accenture.com") ("list of
attendees" OR roster) texas gov
› ("deloitte.com" OR "accenture.com") ("list of
attendees" OR) roster texas gov
› "deloitte.com" OR "accenture.com"/ ?"list of
attendees" OR roster@ texas gov
16.
Google's synonyms – are included (along
with auto-stemming)
"night shift" manager resume scheduled
maintenance aviation
https://www.google.com/search?q=Go
ogle+auto-stemming
17. To include a word exactly:
Put the word in "“
› "night shift" "manager" "resume" "scheduled"
"maintenance" "aviation“
better yet, intext:word or inurl:word
Note. Tilde ~
› is not supported any longer
› Google drops tilde
20. “fill in the blanks”
“fill * * blanks”
Use at the end/beginning of a word to
enforce the content to be shown
› site:plus.google.com javascript engineer
"works at *"
› site:plus.google.com "works at Google" "lives
in San Francisco" "attended *"
21.
site:linkedin.com "people you know"
"current * registered nurse at * hospital"
philadelphia
site:linkedin.com "people you know"
"current * registered nurse at * * hospital"
Philadelphia
site:linkedin.com "people you know"
"current * registered nurse at * * * hospital"
philadelphia
22. site:aerospacewalesforum.co.uk "name *
* title * * " "telephone * *" "email * * *"
"website http* * “
site:http://adia.com.au "contact * * *
phone *" "email *" suppliers
Use Broadlook Contact Capture on
these two to get lists
23. site:aaps.org filetype:xls OR filetype:xlsx
(combine with outwit docs)
Filetype hack:
› facebook filetype:tonini
25. Convenient way to access Google index
https://www.google.com/cse
Example search engine:
http://bit.ly/GPlusEngine
26. Blog http://booleanstrings.com
Largest Sourcers’ Online Community
› "Boolean Strings" Group on LinkedIn
› Boolean Strings Network
People Sourcing Certifications
› http://sourcingcertification.com
Webinars
› http://sourcingcertification.com/webinars/