Dave Copps

, Male

Dallas, TX

United States

Comment Wall:

  • Slouch

    Hi Dave, Thanks for Joining RecruitingBlogs.com
  • Dave Copps

    I'm honored. Thanks for creating it. Some really great discussions going on here. You have the opportunity to make areal difference.
  • Mike Notaro

    The concept and execution of your product looks absolutely incredible! Bravo! And quite the fun presentation at that =]
  • Slouch

    what product are we talking about?
  • Marie Journey

    Brilliant Dave! If you need any additional beta testers - let me know :)
  • James Guske

    The product is "PureDiscovery." It is a search engine using inferences based on semantic organization of keyword tags of Internet links. It learns and it is quite amazing from what I saw. I love Dave's title on his business card: "CEO/Big Cheese."
  • Suzy Tonini

    Love the Moo card and I am ready to help alpha/beta testing any time.I thrive in that stuff!
  • Amybeth Hale

    Count me in if you need more testers (which I'm sure you probably don't!)
  • Volora Howell

    Count me too Dave.
  • Dave Copps

    Thanks everybody. I am anxious to roll out the beta to SourceCon folks. I will put out a notice for those who want to participate in the next couple of weeks.
  • Suzy Tonini

    Hey Dave- have you heard about this new semantic search tool?

    Exalead is proud to present the first semantic search service that lets people find, organize, share and enhance content online. Along with the introduction of the new BAAGZ search service, Exalead launches a special by-invitation-only beta session.

    http://www.baagz.com/beta.html

    And there's yet another one, although results for me were a tad sketchy: http://cognitionsearch.com/
  • Dave Copps

    Hi Suzy,
    Yes Exalead is a french run operation that set out to kill Google in 2004. While they have obviously not accomplished that - they do have a good search engine. They do a nice job of parsing results so if you search for "java developer ecommerce" and look to the right side of the page you can sort the people from the extraneous results (sort of like in Accoona). We have added Exalead to our search engine list and will make it searchable.

    I think there will always be an endless stream of search engines with great features. My goal is to create a single interface that searches all of them. The next important thing will be to aggregate ALL of the results, remove duplicates and present them to the sourcer.

    Here's a question for you sourcers: If you had an engine that would crawl ALL search engines for a specific job search, aggregate the results and remove duplicates, but it took 5 minutes to first surface your results - would you use it?
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  • Dennis Smith

    Hey Dave -

    RecruitingBlogs.com is sponsoring a recruiters networking party next week, March 6th, at Cape Buffalo in Addison @ 6pm! I hope you'll join us. Jason (Slouch) is flying in from Canada and paying for all the food|drinks, so you should join us!

    We're just going to network - talk - have fun! Oh yeah, and then there's the food/drink part : )

    We hope you will join us! Amanda is keeping track of headcount so Jason will know how much cash he needs to fly in (hah)...so if you can make it, please email Amanda at amanda.recruiter@gmail.com. She'll reply with an invite so you can get on her official headcount list.

    Last thing - promise.....feel free to invite some folks from work.

    Hope to meet you next week!

    Dennis
  • Dave Copps

    I think I can make that. I have a late meeting, but if you think you guys will still be rolling at 7:00 I think I could stop by. Thanks for the invite!
  • Cherese DeJesus

    Hi Dave, I'm new to the recruiting community and I'm looking forward to networking with great people.

    Have a nice evening!

    ~Cherese~