Shally source con2012

Unusual Search Engines
for Unusual Talent
With: Shally Steckerl
Connect with Shally at
www.infostripe.com/shally

Blekko.com
© 1996-2012 Shally Steckerl, all rights reserved. Commercial in confidence, TheSourcingInstitute.com .
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 Spam free, fully customizable social search engine
 Introduces /tags (slashtags)
 Quickly create and share a collection of websites to
search
 Upload a list of sites (plain .txt or .opml)
 Search for sites to add (or expand on existing /tags)
 Find a site or tag you like, ad it to your own slashtag(s)
 Too Lost? Enter /help or add /view to see what a tag does
 Too Cool? Gotta have it on your phone? /blekkoapp

Begginer /blekko
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 /add
 Quickly create and share a collection of websites to search
 Search for sites or /tags to borrow or add to your own
 Upload a list of sites in .txt or .opml
 Share publically or collaborate privately with others on a
custom search
 /people-search
 Only people profiles! Searches 48 websites worth of awesome
 /seo
 Useful intelligence and detailed metrics on a particular site
 Ex: inbound links (all other sites that link back to this site)

Advanced Slashtags
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 Full list http://blekko.com/tag/show
 /likes search only your Facebook friends’ likes
 /edu searches Universities & Colleges… so what does /gov do?
 /blog searches typepad, wordpress, tumblr, etc. /forum finds
online discussions
 /images and /video search only… yup, you guessed it
 Operators (commands)
 /people nothing but profiles! (different than /people-search)
 /date search a slice of time and sort by freshness or with /dr
sort by relevance
/date= “Nov 3, 2011” /date=2012 /date=“Nov 3, 2010-Nov 2, 2011”
 /similar gets more pages like this one and /links brings back
sites that link to this one
 /rss when added makes a search into an instant RSS feed

DuckDuckGo !bangs
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 Why bother?
 No tracking means no “filter bubble”
 Supports site: inbody: intitle: filetype:
 Search a country with region:za
 !bangs are search shortcuts you use frequently like
 Big sites such as !youtube, !twitter and !facebook
 General content like !images, or get specific with !gi for Google Images,
!bi for Bing Images, !gmail your Gmail inbox, and !m searches Maps
 Company info from !jigsaw
 Dozens of reference sites at once with !allexperts
 Social !bangs including
 !123p!bsocial !diaspora !dmoz !duck.co !fb (facebook) !flashback !flattr
!fonplus !fotolog !foursquare !friendster !ggroups !greplin !hi5 !highrec
!identica !jetwick !jumpr !li (LinkedIn) !myspace !r !scoop !shoutitout
!tweetgrid !tw (Twitter) !tweet (Tweets) !wink !xanga !xing
 Full listing at: duckduckgo.com/bang.html

Sperse.com
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 Images http://www.sperse.com/index.php?type=images
 Video http://www.sperse.com/index.php?type=Videos
 Forums http://www.sperse.com/index.php?type=Forum
 Blogs http://www.sperse.com/index.php?type=Blog
 PDF http://www.sperse.com/index.php?type=PDF
 Facebook http://www.sperse.com/facebook.php
 LinkedIn http://www.sperse.com/linkedin.php
 Twitter http://www.sperse.com/twitter.php

Alternative Search Engines
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 Boounce.com (the search engine search engine)
 Slikk.com (searchbrowse, multiview, custom bar)
 Zanran.com (big data)
 MillionShort.com
 Eliminates the top 1 million popular sites
 Searches everything else 
 Zuula image search – look for headshots!
 Also try Webstagram for Instagram

Conference Search
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 Find tweets mentioning a conference #hashtag
 Search twubs.com, tweetchat.com and tweepz.com
 Search for people attending(ed) the event
 Search http://snapbird.org/ for old tweets
 Conferences and meetings getting more social!
 Plancast searches Twitter, Facebook, Eventbrite, Meetup
 Lanyrd conference attendees (Ex: Austin Drupal Bash)
 Find conferences on ConferenceHound.com
(has a nice index of speakers and people)

Peer Group Search
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 Phrases in photo captions
 ("l. to r." OR "l to r" OR "left to right" OR "r. to l." OR "r to l"
OR "right to left" OR "back row:" OR "clockwise from")
 Try names of events, groups, companies
 The 3+ name method (like attracts like):
 "shally steckerl" "eric jaquith" "conni Ladouceour"
 References on blogs & social networks:
 Google blogsearch for “and firstname lastname”

Usernames, Comments & Groups
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 See if the username exists on social networks
 Usernamecheck (60+ sites)
 Knowem (120+ sites)
 Also check PeekYou and Yatedo
 Look through the comments on blogs with
 OMGILI.com and SocialMention.com
 MonitorThis combs through 26 search engines to look for
blog posts, photos, tags and tweets on a subject
 WatchThatPage keeps track of changes on sites
 Find job titles in signature files on :
 Big Boards (huge list of online discussion groups)
 BoardReader (forum search engine)

Diminishing filetype: returns
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 The filetype: command works less and less
 Documents are often converted before being shared
 On cloud document repositories like
 docs.google.com, drive.google.com and dropbox.com
 scribd.com, docstoc.com, and toodoc.com
 slideshare.net, docshare.com, and slideboom.com
 yudu.com and edocr.com
 Search the “big four” on Bing, just add keywords
 Package them in a CSE  shally.me/cse-sc12
 HINT: you can still add filetype syntaxt as a refinement!
 (filetype:doc OR filetype:pdf OR filetype:ppt OR filetype:xls OR
inurl:ppt OR inurl:xls OR inurl:doc OR inurl:pdf)

Foursquare Check-ins
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 Foursquare is the biggest player in this space
 Use search.twitter.com and look for 4sq
 Find a “location” like a company HQ
 Who checks in frequently?
 Tips can be very revealing
 What’s nearby? Does the staff go there?
 Search check-ins for THAT venue
 Who do you know that’s been there?

Magazines and Periodicals
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 Reveals names of people mentioned in interviews,
as article authors, members of organizations, award
winners
 Findarticles.com
 Highbeam.com
 Books.google.com
 “Software Engineer” US Black Engineer & IT
 "CPA for|with|at Deloitte“
 Marketing, sales or legal dept. may have Lexis-Nexis

Video Search
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 People being interviewed by bloggers or the local
news can easily spill the beans and give juicy details
 Ex: "is an iphone developer"
 Search transcripts of video via:
 Blinkx.com
 Video.google.com
 Video.aol.com
 Truveo.com
 Vimeo.com
 Package them in a CSE  shally.me/cse-sc12

Country Specific Search Engines
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 Australia: sensis.com.au
 Austria: austronaut.at
 Canada (French): La
Toile du Québec
 China: Baidu, Sina, and
Sohu (write operators
and modifiers in
Chinese)
 France: Francité,
Nomade, Voilà
 Germany: wseeker.com
 Greece: phantis.com
 India: start Sify and Zatka
 Italy: abcitaly.it,
arianna.libero.it
 Romaina: h2.ro
 Russia: yandex. Rambler,
Tela,
 South Africa: Aarvdark,
ananzi.co.za
 Spain: ozu.es
 Switzerland (French):
Search.ch
 EU: Euroseek

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Learning Objectives:
• Fluency in how search engines work including syntax (commands) for top search engines
• Basic comprehension of online social network recruiting (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, etc.)
• Proficiency in outreach and engagement, initiating contact via email and cold calling
• Organization of the sourcing function, management of pertinent information
• Mastery of pre-search process and intake meeting
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1. A thorough understanding of how the Internet impacts the recruiting profession on a daily basis
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3. Ability to utilize most tools and resources for finding passive candidates online
4. A solid methodology for name generation, cold-calling & networking
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