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Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Recruiting Trends 2015 Bratcher-Get off Google and Bing
I have the honor of speaking at the 2015 Recruiting Trends Conference in Orlando, Fl on November 8-10th. I will be presenting on using alternative search engines besides the Goggle and The Bing. Here is a sneak peek:
Hope to see you in Orlando!!
Using a search engine does NOT mean you are searching the
Internet!
Search engines don’t give you access to all pages on the
web, only the ones it has found and indexed.
Each search engine searches the web and catalogs pages in
different ways.
Because of hierarchy individual indexing methods one search
engine will have a set of results different than the other.
It’s good to have a favorite search engine, one you are most
comfortable using, but don’t get complacent and place all your bets on one
single search engine. Get to know at least three of them very well.
No single search engine has yet been able to search the
entire Internet. Chances are that with the Internet growing faster than search
engines can keep up, this may never happen. As a result, it’s wise to use at
least three of the major search engines for any given search. Because the type
of information you seek as a recruiter is contained in hard to find pages, it’s
possible that what you seek is listed in one search engine but not another. If
you stop at just one or two search engines you are probably going to miss many
useful leads.
You are Human, Use
Tools!
·
Read the instructions, learn the uniqueness and
specialized commands of that tool
·
When you evaluate new ones consider how many
pages they have indexed, how fast you can search through those pages, how easy
it is to use advanced commands, and how relevant the results are.
Think!
·
Know when to stop searching (do what?) who the
heck does that?
·
Take time to learn about the different search
engines and determine for yourself what best fits your needs.
·
Remember that if you don’t find what you are
looking for with one search engine, it doesn’t mean that the information
doesn’t exist.
My Best Advice
·
Spend 20% of your search time using new,
different or unique sources
·
Things change or even stop working so spend 10%
of your time looking for NEW sources
A Peek at My Favorite
Alternatives
What? Not a search engine but searches all the best ones and
helps you get better results because of its simple to use interface across all
searches.
So What? It doesn’t track cookies so you get the real
unfiltered results, AND you can use natural language syntax
Now What?
Explore the commands at https://duck.co/help/results/syntax.
For example, what could you do with b:resume?
Go Bang! Check out http://duckduckgo.com/bang.html and
figure out what you could do with !dogpile
What? A Swiss meta-search engine
So What? It searches major international search engines fast
and extensively
Now What?
“my resume” “software engineer” j2ee “san francisco” -job
Let’s try this in advanced settings: UX “my portfolio”
hasbro elf
What? A very simple and user friendly.
So What? It shows you the web results against your queries
as well as social media results!
Now What? Try searching for images on this one...
What? An experimental “discovery engine” that eliminates the
top one million popular sites from your searches .
So What? Discover sites that don't make it to the top of
regular search engine results. Think about it - isn’t that where all the garbage
is that you are trying to avoid?
Now What? Start with the opposite, go to MillionTALL.com and search using the name
of one of your hard-to-find candidates you’ve been trying to track down. What
do you get? Lots of Twitter, Quora, LinkedIn, Facebook… etc. Now go to
MillionSHORT.com and take out the top 1 million popular sites, now what do you
get?
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