2. Inside Google
Date range
Sites with images
Not yet visited
Reading level “advanced”
Verbatim
3. 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.
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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”
7. 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
8. 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)
9. “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)
10. 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
11. /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