Comments on: LinkedIn Current Title Search: Internal vs. X-Ray

By: Bing Beats Google for the Best Way to X-Ray Search LinkedIn

Bing Beats Google for the Best Way to X-Ray Search LinkedIn — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:19:03 +0000

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By: LinkedIn Current Title Search: Internal vs. X-Ray Part II

LinkedIn Current Title Search: Internal vs. X-Ray Part II — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:01:34 +0000

[...] the original LinkedIn Current Title Search: Internal vs. X-Ray post, I found that there was a large disparity in results between identical internal and external [...]

By: Yogesh Kumar

Yogesh Kumar — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:28:40 +0000

Thank you Glen for considering my answer as the best one, glad to hear from you. I am looking forward to see it getting published on other channels and your next challenge. I have discovered many hidden things about sourcing on various channels on web, it would be great if I can contribute to some challenges here.

By: Boolean Black Belt

Boolean Black Belt — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:11:59 +0000

@ Gary, Kathy, Medhavi, April, Josh and Yogesh – thank you for commenting with your thoughts! I must admit Yogesh’s angle may explain a large portion of the disparity in results between an internal LinkedIn search and an “identical” X-Ray search…nice work Yogesh!

I posted a link to this article on the Boolean Strings network and a few LinkedIn groups, but did not get many ideas or attempts at figuring out the issue, and none of them were as thoughtful as those posted here. I plan on writing a follow up post to this article to delve into the disparity in results – stay tuned!

By: Yogesh Kumar

Yogesh Kumar — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:01:21 +0000

Also Linkedin uses “greater new york city area” AND “new york city area” both, if you make a string and put them as following then it would give you more fruitful results:-

( “greater new york city area” OR “new york city area”)

By: Yogesh Kumar

Yogesh Kumar — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:50:33 +0000

This is interesting:-
Here are the reasons:-

1.) QUOTES:- Google will bring the 100% correct results for the phrase you write under QUOTES, it will not skip any word until they are any Special Characters like {%, @ etc) Also Google shows these phrases in the Same Sequence you write them in. Hence Google shows what you type under QUOTES.

Google:-

“Director of accounting” would be as is presented in the search results by Google. 100% same.

Linkedin:-
Linkedin does not read for the words like (or, of , at, for, etc etc) and skips these words and then target only other left keywords.

Same with this case:- “director of accounting”
How Linkedin Searches> Steps:-
searches DIRECTOR>> skips OF>> then searches ACCOUNTING (or opposite way, but the key is that Linkedin skips the words like “of”.)

Resolution:-

Now we know that from our current keywords “director of accounting” Linkedin does not work to search for ‘OF’ or any other words like {at, for, in , of} then why don’t we do something similar in our X-Ray String?? I give you a clue here:-

The best string mentioned above:-
site:linkedin.com (inurl:pub OR inurl:in) -intitle:directory “greater new york city area” “current * * * director of accounting”

And here is the string which would work in Google so that we get the results the way Internal Linkedin Search shows:-

site:linkedin.com (inurl:pub OR inurl:in) -intitle:directory “greater new york city area” “current * * * director * accounting”

I have replaced ‘OF’ with an ASTERISK (*) which will help us to pull out the results including those words which are SKIPPED by Linkedin in an Internal Search. Key is that we are targeting whatever is in between DIRECTOR & ACCOUNTING.

And the no. of result is 10 times more than the Linkedin Internal search result which was earlier more than our X-Ray Search. The no. of search result now is 12400, do you believe it? Please try this string out.

This search string is targeting people who are at least a Director in Accounting (Including other titles, technologies, domains etc) You can edit the string to get more specific results.

I hope It was fruitful research

Thanks,
Yogesh Kumar,

By: GovtRecruiter

GovtRecruiter — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:17:58 +0000

PIck me PIck me!

My answer is Linked in indexes with its RDBMS immediately as a new profile has been created. Granting LinkedIn a Instant Refresh.

Google’s Xray is based off spiders and metatags keying and registering typically taking 45 days to index for most search and meta search engines.

This would answer why more results come via linked in title versus xray due to indexing of web sites/profiles on linked in

*** what do i win a trip to sourceCON next year?

By: April Hammons

April Hammons — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:36:36 +0000

This is a very interesting example. The only problem I see is that even though you received up to 389 results on the LinkedIn search unless you have a premium account you will only be able to see (1) those in your network and (2) up to 100 results. The good thing is that you can then use a X-Ray string to find the profiles of any hidden results that are not in your network. My guess on the differences would be to agree with Kathy that you maybe receiving false positives in your LinkedIn search.

Very interested to hear your ideas!!

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By: Medhavi

Medhavi — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:34:19 +0000

Glen, great you have come up with this post. I wanted to ask you one question related to Linkedin search which I have been procrastinating for a while now. Linkedin is perfect with all the basic boolean operators like AND OR NOT; however it’s not taking quotes seriously. Along with “director of accounting” it is also giving results with phrases like “Director – Accounting”, “Director & Accounting”, “Director, Accounting”, “Accounting Director” etc. In short Quotes are completely ignored in linkedin search and thus the number of results is more.

Do you have any updates or any solution for the same.