Post on 17-May-2015
Custom Search Engines
The best search engine is one you build yourself
Inside Google
Date range Sites with images Not yet visited Reading level “advanced” Verbatim
Opera “Create Search” Right-click inside ANY search box Click “create search” Assign a keyword (used to search from
address bar) You can edit the URL to customize results Works with Google CSEs ;)
HINT: And also your ATS, job boards, etc.
Create Your Own Google CSEs Go to google.com/cse Create you own search engine Add some relevant site: destinations Create a library of synonims Add refinements and labels Custom Autocompletions Ex: OneSource, or search others here Edit your existing CSE’s here
Sites Search “only included” or “entire web”? Include
Online resume locations (i.e. linkedin.com) Social media sites Document hosting sites University, conference, association or organization
sites Exclude
Job posting sites URL keyword patterns Website sections (i.e. www.linkedin.com/company/
) Both supports sub-directory searches like
scguild.com/*resume
Synonyms Create your own dictionary of search term
variants Related Company Names Similar Job Titles Degrees, or Schools Jargon (skill, function, tools) Geographies (city names, area codes, postal
codes) Use special codes for collections of related
terms Corporate abbreviations You own code such as “georgiacompanies”
Refinements Drill down on specific websites you label or append
custom search strings invisible to users Photos of people at events:
("l. to r." OR "l to r" OR "left to right" OR "r. to l." OR "r to l" OR "right to left" OR "back row:" OR "clockwise from")
Include or Exclude Top Level Domains such ask -site:.mil, -site:.gov site:sg.linkedin.com
Phrases like LinkedIn profiles: "search for people you know" ("I’m an" OR "I am an" OR he OR she) "was hired" ("reported to" OR "reports to") “at COMPANY" "software * engineer" "I|I'm work|worked|working for|at|on|with" mailto: or email domains like @gmail @yahoo @hotmail
Speakers and Conferences (he OR she) (chair OR agenda OR keynote OR
member OR speaker OR attendee OR meeting OR minutes OR chapter OR board OR conference OR list)
("I attended" OR "I was at" OR "I went to") javaone 2005
COMPANY (member OR roster OR attendee OR chapter OR board OR conference OR list)
(directory OR contact OR list) (inurl:member OR intitle:member)
“About Us” Search
(intitle:alumni OR intitle:people OR intitle:staff OR intitle:about OR intitle:bio OR intitle:profile OR intitle:team OR intitle:our OR inurl:about OR inurl:bio OR inurl:profile OR inurl:our OR inurl:team OR inurl:alumni OR inurl:people OR inurl:staff)
Go Green With Gigablast From gigablast.com/adv.html
Ad-hoc “Restrict to these Sites” search
Great at “backlink” search with keywords
supports keywords used with link: and -link: unlike Google
Can search within an IP address (like a company IP)
Can manually turn off site clustering
/blekko /add
Quickly create and share a collection of websites to search Search for sites or /tags to add Upload a list of sites in .txt or .opml Collaborate with others on a custom search
/seo Detailed intel on a particular site
/likes Searches your Facebook friends’ “likes”
/me Go to and edit your profile
/view /tagname See what a slashtag does
Shally Steckerlshally@4sct.com
(678) 221-HIRE
4SCT
Thank you!