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Sourcing with Google Images to uncover “Hidden Talent”
Sourcers will stop at nothing to uncover hidden talent. We are constantly looking to unveil new ways to source. More often than not the channels we search for everyday items online can be used to source talent online as... (Continue reading)
Deep into the Web: a Brief Guide for Recruiters
Written on 12 Jan, 2010 at 21:55 in Carnival 2010, Featured, Semantic Search, Sourcing | | 9 Comments
General semantic search engines have a really hard task: making sense of very broad and very large sets of data. Many of the general semantic engines are subject for research papers and conference talks; few general semantic engines are of... (Continue reading)
Recruiting with Topsy.com Search Engine
Topsy is a new kind of search engine, with a new way of looking at the Internet. Topsy doesn’t think the Internet is a collection of documents. Or even a web of documents. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream... (Continue reading)
Sourcing with Ixquick Search
An Ixquick result is awarded one star for every search engine that chooses it as one of the ten best results for your search. So a five star result means that five search engines agreed on the result. This is... (Continue reading)
Searching Bing with the Hasfeed: command
It's sleek and offers some great search options but is it the real deal for recruiters? Take a look at some of my favorite search capabilities of Bing in this search engine review series. Review 1: Hasfeed: command.... (Continue reading)
Searching with Kosmix part II
Kosmix is a guide to the Web. The site (www.kosmix.com) lets users explore the Web by topic, presenting a dashboard of relevent videos, photos, news, commentary, opinion, communities and links to related topics. Kosmix’s categorization engine organizes the Internet into... (Continue reading)
TwitterJobSearch.com
Very cool, Very innovative and developed for 3 sets of users. The Job Seeeker, The Corporation and Yes, you the Recruiter! TwitterJobSearch is fast, slick, and uses some very cool natural language processing. - The full review is posted on... (Continue reading)
Can computational knowledge impact recruiting?
Internet search enthusiasts are craving new opportunities to delve deeper into the world of search. I recently spoke with Gary Clarke of Wolfram Alpha to learn about the new Alpha search engine that claims to have changed search forever. Take... (Continue reading)
Twellow: Search – Seize – Hire
So, Twitter has hit the mainstream, recruiters have certainly picked up on it and it’s been a solid source of prospects for me both from a sales and sourcing perspective. I’m an avid user of Tweetdeck but I need more.... (Continue reading)
My Top 3 Semantic Search Engines
Written on 31 Mar, 2009 at 8:24 in Ask the Recruiter, Search Engines, Semantic Search | | 8 Comments
There are thousands of ways to search for information online. But how can you be sure you are getting the best return on your search? Does your engines simply crawl or spider? I received this question that I thought was... (Continue reading)