This document provides tips and examples for using Google search operators to find specific types of information. It demonstrates how to search within sites, use wildcards and quotation marks, search for filetypes, and turn off personal results. Resources listed at the end include a sourcing blog, LinkedIn group, and certification programs.

2. 
People Aggregator tool
“hiringsolved is“
 hiringsolved "Search * candidate profiles
(and counting)“


https://hiringsolved.com/

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outdated.

5. 
http://www.google.com/advanced_search
MBA senior accenture OR deloitte OR ibm
OR pwc "strategy consultant at" -recruiter talent -job -manager -profiles
site:linkedin.com
 (set location to NL)


6. do a barrell roll
 Tilt
 Recursion
 binary


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

18. Cement Association
 site:cement.org
 site:cement.org gmail
 site:cement.org/research/pdf/resumes

site:lamarconstruction.com/team/member
 site:lamarconstruction.com/team/member
"structural steel"
 IMAGE/FACES


19. site:linkedin.com
 site:linkedin.com/title at-oracle sales


site:aerospacewalesforum.co.uk
telephone email

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

24. 
Settings
https://www.google.com/preferences?h
l=en

Turn personal “off”

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/

27. 
I (Irina Shamaeva) am (often) available
for a sourcing projects