Monday Contest, SN Edition, answers to Question Two

[Irina Shamaeva]

Create a Boolean string on a major search engine such as Google or Yahoo that returns the largest number of LinkedIn profiles of people in finances/accounting.

I will list some answers I got to this one.

site:linkedin.com (inurl:in|pub) (Accounting|Financial|Finance|Tax) -intitle:directory -inurl:answers -inurl:updates -inurl:jobid -inurl:find -inurl:events - (Kameron) ~1,000 results (couldn't be better)

site:linkedin.com (financial | accounting | account | finance | financing | accounts) (inurl:pub | inurl:in) (Raj) (not bad but includes some events along with profiles)

site:linkedin.com inurl:pub | inurl:in "current * audit " | "current * auditing" | "current * auditor" | "current * cfo" | "current * finance" | "current * financial" | "current * accounting" | "current * accountant" | "current * accounts" | "chartered accountant" | "current * gl" | cfa | cpa | aca | acca | acma | cima | fca -inurl:events - interesting apporach, based on certification abbreviations. It works.

site:linkedin.com "industry * accounting" | "industry accounting" | "industry financial services" |"industry * financial services" inurl:pub -inurl:events (Medhavi) - this doesn't work as well; it brings a lots of people from the industry but many of them have non-financial functions (such as they teach)

site:www.linkedin.com accountant -intitle:directory -intitle:company -intitle:groups -inurl:updates -inurl:find -inurl:answers -inurl:jobid
(Gary) - great strings, brings us ~1,000 people in accounting

site:linkedin.com (inurl:in OR inrul:pub) (industry = accounting)
(Sarang)
Here are my comments on this string. It seems that the idea may have been to find people whose industry is accounting. However Google ingores the special symbol = and the string in fact works the same as
site:linkedin.com (inurl:in OR inrul:pub) industry accounting

The results have many relevant results but many irrelevant results as well. I'd be glad to discuss this in more detail if your are interested.

Thanks all! If I missed adding your string here, please reply and tell us what is it.

[Sarang Brahme]

Irina,

I did sent you my answers through ning - not sure you got them. Here is my string
site:linkedin.com (inurl:in OR inrul:pub) (industry = accounting)

The other two answers was not quite there... Look forward for coming Monday....

Sarang Brahme

[Irina Shamaeva]

Yes, correct, Sarang, I just added it to the list.

Sarang Brahme said:

Irina,

I did sent you my answers through ning - not sure you got them. Here is my string
site:linkedin.com (inurl:in OR inrul:pub) (industry = accounting)

The other two answers was not quite there... Look forward for coming Monday....

Sarang Brahme

[Medhavi]

Hi Irina,

Thanks for appreciating my approach for the first string. As you have mentioned second search string gives professionals from finance/accounting industry. I completely agree. However I did mention the same in the mail that I had sent.

Once again thanks for coming up with such a wonderful website which has helped us to develop boolean skills.

Kind Regards,
Medhavi