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Boolean Strings

"The Internet Sourcing Community". Sourcers, Recruiters, Sales, Business Development; all who search the Internet: Share Boolean strings to find resumes, profiles, contacts, generate leads; discuss search engines, deep web, real time, semantic search, Google, Google-Plus pages, Bing/Yahoo, LinkedIn; parsing, productivity tools, tips.

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boolean search for location of "near any airport"?!

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Sourcing Contest for the UK and for All Other Countries

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Comment by Alaina Rivas on November 11, 2008 at 1:13pm
Job Fox

Do you have any experience working with Jobfox? Any information positive or negative is appreciated.
Comment by chandra bodapati on November 10, 2008 at 9:42pm
Hi Booleaners and Irina

Proposal for standardizing our chats here.... making it instantly useful.

Since
- this is a discussion forum about boolean strings that normally are entered into a search engine,
- and since we are not restricting our discussion to one search engine
- and since we know that certain commands acceptable in one search engine are not acceptable in another
- and there are cases where a search string on one search engine gives a different result to the same string in another
- and there is a need to differentiate user input and commands, as some may not know which is a search command and what is a user input
- and we want to be able to easily cut-n-paste the strings into the search engine

can we agree, for the sake clearer communication on a format for communication of strings. One proposal

Search_Engine_Name
[User Input} Search_String

Google
[enter_Keywords] [enter_location] (intitle:"resume for" OR intitle:"resume of") -intitle:example -intitle:examples -intitle:sample -intitle:submit

We can agree that the required user input will always come in the front of the search string, making it easier to read, understand and use. And whatever comes after the string can be pasted ASIS,

This will help beginners use the strings quickly.
It will enable experts to quickly review and comment on the scripts.

Another thing the poster can do to help, is provide a concrete example with a tiny url link. This will help tremendously. So here is how it would look

Google
[enter_Keywords] [enter_location] (intitle:"resume for" OR intitle:"resume of") -intitle:example -intitle:examples -intitle:sample -intitle:submit

Example search for [C++ JavaScript] [CA]
http://tinyurl.com/4bmfq5

Open for comments.

Thank you,

Chandra Bodapati
CEO / Founder
eGrabber
Comment by Dina Harding on November 10, 2008 at 9:15pm
Thank you for creating this group! An excellent idea! I'm looking forward to learning & sharing! -Dina
Comment by Douglas Mazanec on November 7, 2008 at 2:58pm
Those looking to turn their search strings into RSS feeds should try "FeedMySearch' at http://feedmysearch.com/
Comment by Katherine Halbert on November 7, 2008 at 2:29pm
Thanks for the group. I am looking forward to gathering new ideas and hopefully being able to share ideas too.
Comment by Douglas Mazanec on November 7, 2008 at 1:57pm
Tks for the group ... hoping to brush up on my string game .. always more to learn
Comment by Alaina Rivas on November 7, 2008 at 1:50pm
Below is a Linked In Hack that works great-

Type this entire link below in the Google toolbar... This will allow you to search outside of your network.

site:www.linkedin.com intitle:linkedin YOUR KEYWORDS HERE -intitle:answers -intitle:updated -intitle:blog -intitle:directory -inurl:jobs -inurl:megite.com

It is recommended to add a mix of related job titles or companies, and even geographic locations, to target results. Example:
site:www.linkedin.com intitle:linkedin (microsoft OR amazon) evangelist "greater seattle area" -intitle:answers -intitle:updated -intitle:blog -intitle:directory -inurl:jobs -inurl:megite.com
Comment by William Groenekamp on November 7, 2008 at 1:28pm
Thank you for starting the group and for the invitation to join. I look forward to learning and sharing.

Bill Groenekamp
Comment by Ravikiran on November 7, 2008 at 12:12pm
Hi Irina, Thanks for creating this group.
Comment by JC on November 7, 2008 at 11:46am
Thank you for starting this group... I utilze search strings for sourcing candidates on a daily basis... but sometimes need assistance on drilling down targeted profiles.
 

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