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!