All Discussions Tagged 'google' - Boolean Strings Network2024-03-28T14:33:11Zhttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=google&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSEEK Talent Search Boolean Stringtag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2017-06-20:2748775:Topic:2845152017-06-20T01:00:14.089ZMarrin-Boyd Andrewshttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/MarrinBoydAndrews
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
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<p>Has anyone been able to get a solid and working Google Boolean string for the SEEK Talent Search site? See below</p>
<p><a href="https://talent.seek.com.au/products/talentsearch">https://talent.seek.com.au/products/talentsearch</a> </p>
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<p>Knowing we can get access to LinkedIn profiles through a google Boolean string I would like to also get a string that can find profiles on this site.</p>
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<p>Thank you in advance</p>
<p>Marrin-Boy Andrews</p>
<p>Hi everyone,</p>
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<p>Has anyone been able to get a solid and working Google Boolean string for the SEEK Talent Search site? See below</p>
<p><a href="https://talent.seek.com.au/products/talentsearch">https://talent.seek.com.au/products/talentsearch</a> </p>
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<p>Knowing we can get access to LinkedIn profiles through a google Boolean string I would like to also get a string that can find profiles on this site.</p>
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<p>Thank you in advance</p>
<p>Marrin-Boy Andrews</p> Sourcing Contest #SourcingSolvedtag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2014-01-29:2748775:Topic:1172712014-01-29T02:20:17.182ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p>The Winter Sourcing Contest "SourcingSolved" is up! ("quiz" style, 8+1 questions), </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html">http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html</a></strong></p>
<p>Get famous and earn substantial prizes, to help you to source and to search even better.</p>
<p><strong>Deadline:</strong> Friday January 31, 2014</p>
<p>Please share! :)</p>
<p>The Winter Sourcing Contest "SourcingSolved" is up! ("quiz" style, 8+1 questions), </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html">http://sourcingcertification.com/sourcingsolved.html</a></strong></p>
<p>Get famous and earn substantial prizes, to help you to source and to search even better.</p>
<p><strong>Deadline:</strong> Friday January 31, 2014</p>
<p>Please share! :)</p> Google Alerts----problems?tag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2013-09-20:2748775:Topic:1113232013-09-20T14:45:42.171ZBrett Beauchamp-Russellhttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/BrettBeauchampRussell
<p>So...</p>
<p>This morning I go to create a Google alert/search string for a position that I'm looking for... very simple Linkdedin Xray;</p>
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<p>site:linkedin.com ("core java" AND swing) AND (ny OR "new york")</p>
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<p>Runs great on Google.com 4800+ returns (yes, I plan to change the search to reduce the number of returns...not my concern at the moment)...</p>
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<p>My concern...</p>
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<p>When I try putting the same search string into Google alerts.. I'm told that…</p>
<p>So...</p>
<p>This morning I go to create a Google alert/search string for a position that I'm looking for... very simple Linkdedin Xray;</p>
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<p>site:linkedin.com ("core java" AND swing) AND (ny OR "new york")</p>
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<p>Runs great on Google.com 4800+ returns (yes, I plan to change the search to reduce the number of returns...not my concern at the moment)...</p>
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<p>My concern...</p>
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<p>When I try putting the same search string into Google alerts.. I'm told that there are NO search results.</p>
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<p>Any thoughts as to what might be going on? Anyone know of trouble with Google Alerts?</p> Video of Google and Yahoo extractor software to have your boolean string results land into an Exel SStag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2011-05-06:2748775:Topic:622252011-05-06T17:42:32.432ZDan Woodshttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/DanWoods
<p>The following video is supplied to show a simple boolean technique with software I use that produces results in seconds. This video is a run through of a simple site:linkedin.com search on Google, with results over 2000 profiles, of a broad tern, in an excel spread sheet within 60 seconds.</p>
<p>The video is 8 minutes long</p>
<p>Review the video and feel free to ask any questions.…</p>
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<p>The following video is supplied to show a simple boolean technique with software I use that produces results in seconds. This video is a run through of a simple site:linkedin.com search on Google, with results over 2000 profiles, of a broad tern, in an excel spread sheet within 60 seconds.</p>
<p>The video is 8 minutes long</p>
<p>Review the video and feel free to ask any questions.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gkdu0Cgt7SM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gkdu0Cgt7SM</a></p>
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<p>Visit <a href="http://leadnetpromotion.com/" target="_blank">http://leadnetpromotion.com</a> for more info.</p>
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<p>If you are currently using software that can produce similar or better results, I would love to hear about it.</p> BING VS Google - NEAR VS AROUND - LinkedIn XRay Searchingtag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2011-03-18:2748775:Topic:597382011-03-18T10:41:14.282ZSarang Brahmehttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/sarangbrahme1
<p>Recently I've started digging more into Bing X-Ray searching while working on Glen's challenge.</p>
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<p>In my opinion NEAR works much better than AROUND.</p>
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<p>Bing:</p>
<p>site:uk.linkedin.com sourcing NEAR:8 capgemini</p>
<p>62 results</p>
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<p>Google:</p>
<p>site:uk.linkedin.com "sourcing" AROUND(8) capgemini</p>
<p>10k+ results</p>
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<p>Most of the BING results are good while Google results are not accurate. In fact, even if you remove AROUND operator -…</p>
<p>Recently I've started digging more into Bing X-Ray searching while working on Glen's challenge.</p>
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<p>In my opinion NEAR works much better than AROUND.</p>
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<p>Bing:</p>
<p>site:uk.linkedin.com sourcing NEAR:8 capgemini</p>
<p>62 results</p>
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<p>Google:</p>
<p>site:uk.linkedin.com "sourcing" AROUND(8) capgemini</p>
<p>10k+ results</p>
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<p>Most of the BING results are good while Google results are not accurate. In fact, even if you remove AROUND operator - number of results still remain same.</p>
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<p>Any comments?</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"></p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Verdana, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/google-instant-search-of-little-benefit-to-sourcers-recruiters/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(255, 119, 0);"><img src="http://booleanstrings.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/images-3.jpg?w=208&h=218" title="images (3)" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial;"/></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Verdana, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Being a really slow typer I love to be helped. However, I don’t think that recently introduced <a href="http://www.google.com/instant/" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">instant search</a> is likely to become a favorite tool. Here’s just a few reasons:</span></p>
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<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Verdana, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I use Google operators, and if you do, too, you may notice that it’s slower with instant search than without. Just try typing <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">intitle:resume OR inurl:resume</em> with and without instant search (luckily, we can turn it on and off).</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Verdana, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">With instant search on, I can only see 10 results on one page; I like to see 100.</span></li>
<li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Verdana, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Words guessed by Google may be of more interest to Google (since it would show more ads to click on) than to me.</span></li>
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<p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, Verdana, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">What do <em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: italic; font-size: 15px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">you</em> think?</span></p> Mini-Sourcing Contesttag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2010-08-26:2748775:Topic:448412010-08-26T17:25:29.342ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
Email your answers to <a href="mailto:contest@booleanstrings.com">contest@booleanstrings.com</a><div><br></br></div>
<div>1. What are some pages on the open web that contain information in Excel format but cannot be found by using the <i>filetype:</i> command on Google? Provide an example.</div>
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<div>2. Name at least one Bing search capability that Google doesn't have. (Extra points for sharing in a post.)</div>
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<div>3. Who joined LinkedIn right after (or soon…</div>
Email your answers to <a href="mailto:contest@booleanstrings.com">contest@booleanstrings.com</a><div><br/></div>
<div>1. What are some pages on the open web that contain information in Excel format but cannot be found by using the <i>filetype:</i> command on Google? Provide an example.</div>
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<div>2. Name at least one Bing search capability that Google doesn't have. (Extra points for sharing in a post.)</div>
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<div>3. Who joined LinkedIn right after (or soon after) you did? Please explain.</div>
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<div>4. If you look at a person's profile on LinkedIn but do not see a link to the person's public profile, how can you find it using LinkedIn search (<i>not</i> a search engine)?</div>
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<div>5. How many people have the word <i>Boolean</i> in their Twitter bio? Out of them, who was the first to join Twitter?</div>
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<div>Also, posting sourcing advice here on the forum adds points.</div>
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<div>The winner can be a guest at one of my future webinars.</div> How Many Resumes Are There on the Internet?tag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2010-06-11:2748775:Topic:401942010-06-11T15:41:31.859ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Here is a cool blog post contest. Post a blog (anywhere) with an estimate of the number of resumes on the Internet and <a href="http://trusource.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/trusource-you-can-win-a-free-ticket/">win a ticket to #TRUsource</a> in Atlanta. …</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Here is a cool blog post contest. Post a blog (anywhere) with an estimate of the number of resumes on the Internet and <a href="http://trusource.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/trusource-you-can-win-a-free-ticket/">win a ticket to #TRUsource</a> in Atlanta. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">We are looking for resumes on the open ("surface") we that are Google-able. Profiles and bios don't count.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><br/> Please <a href="mailto:TheTRUEvents@gmail.com">email Geoff Webb</a> with a reference to your post. The deadline is next Friday, June 18th 2010. The winner will be chosen by Geoff Webb, Glen Cathey, Chris Havrilla, Jim Stroud, and myself.</span></p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><br/> In addition, I will give my <a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/new-dvd-google-based-sourcing/">Google-Based sourcing DVD</a> to a randomly selected author out of the first five people who post. <br/> <br/> I looked around and here are some i<a href="http://bit.ly/aJW5yw">nteresting numbers</a> I was able to pick.</span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">What we are looking for in the contest is suggesting some sort of a proof or a method or a thought process to help count resumes along with a number. It's OK to quote authorities (like "Jim Stroud said...") but we encourage participants to suggest some other evidence :)</span></p>
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</div> Sourcing on Google? Control Google Search Results Display With *tag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2010-05-05:2748775:Topic:381872010-05-05T15:39:22.337ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:n8FT2moAqb0OpM:%3Ca%20href="></img></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:n8FT2moAqb0OpM:%3Ca%20href="/></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">Many of us know about the use of the asterisk <strong><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);">*</span></strong> to find phrases on Google. The asterisk stands for one (or sometimes a few) words. Here is an example. On Google, search for</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><em><a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&q=%22current+*+*+manager%22+marketing+site:linkedin.com+-inurl:dir+%22san+francisco+bay+area%22&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(10, 143, 188);">“current * * manager” marketing site:linkedin.com -inurl:dir “san francisco bay area”</a></em></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;">to find <em>Senior Marketing Managers, </em>Partner Development Managers, <span style="font-style: normal;">and others on LinkedIn.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">Did you know that you can also use the asterisk to </span><span style="font-style: normal;">control </span><span style="font-style: normal;">what </span><span style="font-style: normal;">Google displays...<a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/control-google-search-results-display-with/">read the rest here.</a></span></em></p> Got Search Strings? (New Sourcing Contest)tag:booleanstrings.ning.com,2010-04-28:2748775:Topic:379142010-04-28T20:37:59.404ZIrina Shamaevahttps://booleanstrings.ning.com/profile/IrinaShamaeva
<div>Dear All, </div>
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<div>Here is a new mini-contest for you. </div>
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<div>1. Both Bing and Google have the operator “filetype”. What is the difference, if any? Are there any pages that can be reached with one engine but not with the other? </div>
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<div>2. My LinkedIn People Finder has refinements to search for people from 8 different countries. It works very well but there's one flaw I am aware of. Can you find it? Please find a case where it…</div>
<div>Dear All, </div>
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<div>Here is a new mini-contest for you. </div>
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<div>1. Both Bing and Google have the operator “filetype”. What is the difference, if any? Are there any pages that can be reached with one engine but not with the other? </div>
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<div>2. My LinkedIn People Finder has refinements to search for people from 8 different countries. It works very well but there's one flaw I am aware of. Can you find it? Please find a case where it would bring up a wrong profile (not from the selected country) when you use one of the refinements. </div>
<div><a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/linkedin-people-finder-international/">http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/linkedin-people-finder-international/</a> </div>
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<div>3. How many people are there currently on Twitter, approximately, who are Software Developers working with .NET technology? Please explain. (Hint: they would not necessarily say ".NET Developer" in the bio) </div>
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<div>The winner will have a pass to my Twitter Webinar next Tue <a href="http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/find-the-right-people-on-twitter-expanded-verson/"><b>http://booleanstrings.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/find-the-right-people-on-twitter-expanded-verson/</b></a>, or to a future webinar of his/her choice, and will be featured. </div>
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<div>Deadline: EOB Monday May 10. </div>
<div>Please email your submissions to contest@booleanstrings.com </div>
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<div>Irina </div>
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