Searching for Company Directories

Does anyone have a sure fire "Search String" to use on Google or Yahoo or Live to find Company contacts or Directories?

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Permalink Reply by Norman L. Harris on December 4, 2008 at 3:37pm

Are you looking for contact names, phone numbers, and/or email addresses?

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Permalink Reply by Kunal on December 4, 2008 at 4:13pm

I was gonna post the same thing.
I would be looking for Contact numbers, email addresses, contact names and number of employees if possible.
Norman, I would like some guidance from you.
Is there any software or any tool online, which can extract all these info?

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Permalink Reply by Norman L. Harris on December 4, 2008 at 7:28pm

I have not discovered a single search string that will produce names, numbers and email addresses in a single result. Nor have I found a way to extract company directories using the Internet. What I have found are different techniques to locate certain directory information such as email addresses, phone numbers, names. Let's use email addresses as an example. 1) Guess the address - This site has a great primer on how to find the email address for those with corporate accounts: http://www.webfoot.com/advice/FindingEmailAddresses.html. 2) Try directories- This site gives a fairly good list of sites to search: http://guide.darwinmag.com/reference/lookup/email/ and this site lets you search several email directories and reverse directories from one page:
http://www.freeality.com/findet.htm

There are companies that offer this type of service but they can be expensive. You might want to try American Business Directories 1-888/260-7938. They have a similar database you can purchase on CD for $1000 or use on their website in smaller increments. I don't have their web site but the above should be enough info to search it out.

Kay said:

I was gonna post the same thing.
I would be looking for Contact numbers, email addresses, contact names and number of employees if possible.
Norman, I would like some guidance from you.
Is there any software or any tool online, which can extract all these info?

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Permalink Reply by Norman L. Harris on December 4, 2008 at 7:46pm

Additional comment: You could search your ATS for candidates from your targeted companies. Contact the candidate to obtain a couple of company email addresses and send those employees an email during the holiday. Hopefully they will set their out of office reply and include their phone number or the name and number of another person who is acting as a back up in their out of office reply. If you generate enough names and network it's only a matter of time before you have "infiltrated" the company.

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Permalink Reply by Irina Shamaeva on December 4, 2008 at 9:22pm

What are your target companies? Big? Small? Do you want the complete list of employees, ideally, or just specific contacts there? For how many companies are you looking to get directories?

There is a discussion at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1176637 exactly on the topic of search strings for directories and a discussion here at http://www.recruitingblogs.com/group/booleanstrings about finding email addresses. Please join and take a look!

I also posted this "hack" to find employees of a given company on LinkedIn and create a list of their emails some time ago. "How to create a target email list of candidates in no time and for free" (posted on ERE) http://tinyurl.com/6a33rw

-Irina

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Permalink Reply by Norm Lacroix on December 5, 2008 at 7:35am

I am searching for medium to big companies,I'd want employees, phone number and/or emails if possible. I did use one of Shally Steckerl's hacks and found some association members list using - ASSOCIATIONNAME (DIRECTORY | CONTACT | LIST) (INURL:MEMBER | INTITLE:MEMBER)

Thanks everyone,

Norm

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Permalink Reply by 01. Lonnie McRorey on December 5, 2008 at 9:59am

Hi Norm

I can only pull off Directories via phone however you can search Google for Name/Titles/Email using this simple yet effective boolean search string.

filetype:xls attendees contact @ member (target title)

Note results vary according to industry. I was able to pull off hundreds of names with emails and sometimes direct lines. Hope this helps. You can always call me and help you fine tune your search results.

Lonnie McRorey
203-648-9638 ext 103
lonnie.mcrorey@ti-22.com
www.ti-22.com/videopreentation.php

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Permalink Reply by Kunal on December 5, 2008 at 12:15pm

I found broadlook - eclipse

http://www.broadlook.com/products/eclipse/

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Permalink Reply by Norm Lacroix on December 5, 2008 at 12:21pm

Thank you Kay,

I will try it out...

Norm

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Permalink Reply by Kunal on December 5, 2008 at 12:32pm

Norm,
broadlook - eclipse i think is not a free tool. One of my office mate has it.

I found one more whic can be free
http://www.kprobe.com/kprobe/fdc.htm
I am still working on how to use it.

Thanks
Kay

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Permalink Reply by Irina Shamaeva on December 5, 2008 at 12:44pm

Another suggestion. If you are not familiar with Jigsaw, try it here. (I get 125 "points" if you join):

http://www.jigsaw.com/join/freetrial

You can search contacts by company name, location, level, keywords etc.
You get all the fields you're looking for: name, title, email, phone, and address. It's not guaranteed that this data is correct but if you are looking for large lists you will certainly find some good data.

The membership is free if you add a number of contacts monthly. They will only charge you if you select a paid membership option.
I've been a member for a few years now.

The company data is free on Jigsaw.

-Irina

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Permalink Reply by 01. Lonnie McRorey on December 5, 2008 at 12:46pm

Kay- This is really cool. It's going to take sometime to maximize it's potential. Nice find!

Kay said:

Norm,
broadlook - eclipse i think is not a free tool. One of my office mate has it.

I found one more whic can be free
http://www.kprobe.com/kprobe/fdc.htm
I am still working on how to use it.

Thanks
Kay