Sourcing / Recruiting /Searching on Google and Live

Rithesh Nair http://researchersecrets.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/rithesh

Search Engine = Information
Billions of Pages = Resources = Sourcing
Sourcing= Recruiting

http://researchersecrets.com The overlapping links varies for each engines- It means that Searchers relying on a single search engine are missing a vast amount of web content that they could easily find simply by trying their queries on other search engines.

http://researchersecrets.com All search engines ignore "stop" or “noise” words because they have minimal informational value and are found so commonly in all language. STOP WORDS

Put your most important keywords first in the string.
Most search engines are insensitive to whether you use upper, lower, or mixed cases in your search.
Start with basic search and keep filtering
Keep trying different ways to write the keyword
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http://researchersecrets.com COMPARING – Search Engines Search Engine GOOGLE YAHOO ASK ME Exalead LIVE / MSN Boolean Logic -, OR AND, OR, NOT, ( ), - -, OR AND, OR, NOT, ( ),- AND, OR, NOT, ( ), - Fields intitle, inurl, link, site, more intitle, inurl, link, site, more intitle, inurl, site intitle, inurl, link, site intitle, site, loc, url Specials Asterisk * tilde ~ Use of “stop word” instead of * NEAR operator for 16 word proximity | - Pipe

AND / +
The AND operator delivers results that contain both the first term and the second term.
Example : resume AND J2EE AND struts
Google: resume j2ee struts
OR / |
The OR operator delivers results that contain either the first term or the second term or both.
Example : resume OR CV AND J2ee AND struts
Google: resume | cv j2ee struts
NOT / -
The NOT operator will deliver documents that contain the first word, but do not contain the second.
Example : resume OR CV AND J2ee AND struts -job –apply
Google: resume | cv j2ee struts -job -apply

Quotations “ “ - Quotation is used to find an exact phrase or title match.
Ex: resume | cv "project manager" j2ee -job –apply
Parentheses ( ) - Use parentheses to group search queries and build more complicated search strings.
Ex: (resume | cv | vitae) "project manager" j2ee (struts | swing )
Wildcards * -A wild card will find variations in spelling or different endings.
Ex: (resume | cv | vitae) j2ee "software * engineer" –jobs
Tilde ~ - Finds synonyms | related words
Ex: ~cv j2ee ("project manager" | "software * engineer“)
Modifiers

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AND (JUST A SPACE IN GOOGLE)
OR = |
NOT = -
()
“ “
~ Tilde
* WILD CARD

http://researchersecrets.com ADVANCED SEARCHES intitle – Searches for a specific word in the Title of the Page Intitle:resume j2ee (“project manager”| "software * engineer") (swing | struts ) -job –apply inurl - searches for a specific word in the URL of the Page inurl:resume j2ee (“project manager”| "software * engineer") (swing | struts ) -job –apply Want better results? Combine intitle & inurl

http:// researchersecrets.com site: will search the contents of a specific site only For example: site:linkedin.com accenture sap chicago Will only search www.linkedin.com and will only find Information with the words, Accenture, SAP and Chicago.

Boolean Operators:- ( ) “ “ NOT - AND & OR |
Live strings are similar to Google. Examples: Intitle (intitle:resume | intitle:cv | intitle:vitae) j2ee “new york” filetype resume (filetype:doc | filetype:rtf OR filetype:pdf) j2ee new.york Intitle and filetype (intitle:resume | intitle:cv | intitle:vitae) filetype:doc j2ee new.york

http://researchersecrets.com Modifiers inbody: Finds words in the body of the page intitle: Finds words in the title of the page (same as Google) inurl: Finds words in the URL (same as Google) contains: Will only bring up results that have a link to the file type filetype: will only bring up the specific file type you are asking EXAMPLES intitle:resume J2EE contains:doc -job -jobs -send -submit –you intitle:resume J2EE filetype:doc -job -jobs -send -submit –you inbody:resume J2EE -job -jobs -send -submit -you intitle:resume J2EE -job -jobs -send -submit –you (inurl:cv | intitle:cv) J2EE -job -jobs

http://researchersecrets.com Other Live Features
inanchor: returns results in the anchor, body, title, or web address of the site
inanchor:resume j2ee new.york -job –jobs
loc: returns web pages from a specific country or region
contains:doc (resume | cv | vitae) j2ee loc:US
(resume | cv |vitae) loc:US New York j2ee -jobs –job
language: searches in a specific language
resume j2ee montreal language:fr
site: searches only the site you specify (same as Google)
site:linkedin.com (deloitte| pwc)

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