Google Searches: General Question

[Anthony Arrington]

Hi all,

I'm new to this network, but glad to be a part of it. Question regarding Google searches:

I'm getting a lot of garbage back on many of my Google searches, but while I understand Boolean logic, I'm not well-versed in the Google process and may be doing something wrong. Do you start your searches from the Advanced Search page? If so, in what field do you enter your string?

[gary cozin]

Anthony,

No need to go to the advanced search page. Just use the main search box on Google's home page. You are probably getting 'garbage' (or 'noise') back on your searches due to the way you are removing the 'garbarge' or 'noise' in your strings.

For general (inurl:resume | inurl:title) keyword keyword loca etc you need to exclude the noise by generally using the following at the end of your string: -job -jobs -submit -careers -apply -"resume service" - whatever you want to filter out put a minus sign in front of it;

For profile searches from LinkedIN using Google such as: site:www.linkedin.com keyword location, etc (inurl:pub | inurl:in) you need to add -intitle:directory and you will get just clean profiles.

Look at some of the discussions here for the strings and you will get the hang of it-

Gary

[Anthony Arrington]

Gary,

I do used those exclusions. For example: below is a string I might use, where I replace KEYWORD with my terms:

KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2 (~resumé|~rèsumè|~résumé|~CV|~Vitae|~vitæ) -intitle:~job -intitle:~jobs

I will try you string and use the main search box on Google's homepage. Thanks!

[Kameron Swinton]

Anthony -

You may be better off using field searches than using the tilde on Google. Using the synonym function, Google returns results that it believes are associated with the terms (~resumé|~rèsumè|~résumé|~CV|~Vitae|~vitæ), however, many of these can return false positives. Also without limiting where Google finds those terms, you will need to exclude results where the words resume/cv/vitae/etc. are used in job postings, classifieds, etc such as send a copy of your resume... Using field searches like inurl, intitle will limit your search to specific areas of the websites indexed by Google and can be very effective at limiting the noise. Furthermore, adding -job -jobs (along with some of the other terms Gary mentioned) can help to further eliminate the noise and hone your results.

Let me give you an example, adding a few keywords to your search string:
(~resumé|~rèsumè|~résumé|~CV|~Vitae|~vitæ) "Software Engineer" 858 "San Diego" -intitle:~job -intitle:~jobs -- 2,330 results, lots of results but also lots of garbage

adding -job -jobs to the end of your string to eliminate the garbage:
(~resumé|~rèsumè|~résumé|~CV|~Vitae|~vitæ) "Software Engineer" 858 "San Diego" -intitle:~job -intitle:~jobs -job -jobs -- 528 results, much better but once you get thru the first 100 results still some garbage

here is a string using the same key words but with the intitle/inurl:
(inurl:resume|intitle:resume|intitle:cv|intitle:vitae) "Software Engineer" 858 "San Diego" -jobs -job -- 96 results, almost all resumes but not perfect.
This worked well but now you could look to expand your results by adding other keywords, such as more area codes, zip codes, titles, skills, etc. Hope that helps, Good Luck!

-kameron

[Anthony Arrington]

THANKS KAMERON! I will give this a shot.

[Manick Paul]

Hi Anthony,

Please go through the link http://www.referyes.com/source_people.htm
on this you can generate the Keys for all search engines its good for beginners.

Regards
Manick

[Anthony Arrington]

MANICK-I have used http://www.referyes.com/source_people.htm before--it is a good site. I know how to write my own queries, so I don't use it much.

KAMERON- your string works well! The "intitle/inurl:" qualifiers was what I was missing in my strings, and this made a huge difference in cleaning up the garbage.

Thanks to both of you for the insight!

[Kelly]

Just FYI - the accent marks are not read by google, so ~resume will get all of the "versions" of resume that you list here. As Kameron says below, the ~ does give lots of false positives with words like "resume" - it thinks "jobs" is a synonym for example. I have also found that you are best off using the (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume OR intitle:cv OR inurl:cv etc etc etc ) format, and using -intitle:jobs -intitle:writing etc etc etc tothe search to revomve the "junk".

Anthony Arrington said:

Gary,

I do used those exclusions. For example: below is a string I might use, where I replace KEYWORD with my terms:

KEYWORD1 KEYWORD2 (~resumé|~rèsumè|~résumé|~CV|~Vitae|~vitæ) -intitle:~job -intitle:~jobs

I will try you string and use the main search box on Google's homepage. Thanks!

[Anthony Arrington]

Thanks Kelly!

[rajesh]

Hi All,

I am glad to join this group. I am a recruiter . I like to know about the search strings and their use. Can anyone please help me in this? I like to know the search strings that we can use in google, linkedin, Yahoo, Bing and thier uses

Expecting your help. You can reach me at [e-mail]



Rajesh

[rajesh]

Hi Gary,

I am a beginner in recruitments. I like to know the search strings that we can use in getting resumes in google, Yahoo, Linkedin, bing and their uses. Can you please help me out in this?

You can reach me at [e-mail]

Rajesh

gary cozin said:

Anthony,

No need to go to the advanced search page. Just use the main search box on Google's home page. You are probably getting 'garbage' (or 'noise') back on your searches due to the way you are removing the 'garbarge' or 'noise' in your strings.

For general (inurl:resume | inurl:title) keyword keyword loca etc you need to exclude the noise by generally using the following at the end of your string: -job -jobs -submit -careers -apply -"resume service" - whatever you want to filter out put a minus sign in front of it;

For profile searches from LinkedIN using Google such as: site:www.linkedin.com keyword location, etc (inurl:pub | inurl:in) you need to add -intitle:directory and you will get just clean profiles.

Look at some of the discussions here for the strings and you will get the hang of it-

Gary

[gary cozin]

Rajesh-

Would be too long in this discussion to explain all the techniques to find resumes on various search engines. Since it's new to you, I would suggest following the discussions in this group and on the Boolean Strings group on LinkedIN. You will get the hang of it with practice - you'll see basic commands you can practice.

I also suggest taking any of Irina's (this groups moderator) webinars and/or DVD's - the links are at the top of the MAIN page on this group-

Good luck!