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Search Engine = Information

Billions of Pages = Resources = Sourcing

Sourcing= Recruiting

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The overlapping links varies for each engines- It means that Searchers relying on a single search engine are missing a vast amount of web content that they could easily find simply by trying their queries on other search engines.

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All search engines ignore "stop" or “noise” words because they have minimal informational value and are found so commonly in all language.

STOP WORDS

Put your most important keywords first in the string.

Most search engines are insensitive to whether you use upper, lower, or mixed cases in your search. 

Start with basic search and keep filtering Keep trying different ways to write the

keyword

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Search Engine

GOOGLE YAHOO ASK ME Exalead LIVE / MSN

Boolean Logic

-, OR AND, OR, NOT,( ), -

-, OR AND, OR, NOT,( ),-

AND, OR, NOT,( ), -

Fields intitle, inurl, link, site, more

intitle, inurl, link, site, more

intitle, inurl, site

intitle, inurl, link, site

intitle, site, loc, url

Specials Asterisk *

tilde ~

Use of “stop word” instead of *

NEAR operator for 16 word proximity

| - Pipe

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COMPARING – Search Engines

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AND / + The AND operator delivers results that contain both the first term and the second term.Example : resume AND J2EE AND strutsGoogle: resume j2ee struts

OR / | The OR operator delivers results that contain either the first term or the second term or both. Example : resume OR CV AND J2ee AND strutsGoogle: resume | cv j2ee struts

NOT / - The NOT operator will deliver documents that contain the first word, but do not contain the second. Example : resume OR CV AND J2ee AND struts -job –applyGoogle: resume | cv j2ee struts -job -apply

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Quotations “ “ - Quotation is used to find an exact phrase or title match. Ex: resume | cv "project manager" j2ee -job –apply

Parentheses ( )- Use parentheses to group search queries and build more complicated search strings. Ex:(resume | cv | vitae) "project manager" j2ee (struts | swing)

Wildcards *-A wild card will find variations in spelling or different endings.Ex:(resume | cv | vitae) j2ee "software * engineer" –jobs

Tilde ~ - Finds synonyms | related wordsEx: ~cv j2ee ("project manager" | "software * engineer“)

Modifiers

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AND (JUST A SPACE IN GOOGLE) OR = | NOT = - () “ “ ~ Tilde * WILD CARD

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ADVANCED SEARCHES

intitle – Searches for a specific word in the Title of the Page

Intitle:resume j2ee (“project manager”| "software * engineer") (swing | struts ) -job –apply

inurl - searches for a specific word in the URL of the Page

inurl:resume j2ee (“project manager”| "software * engineer") (swing | struts ) -job –apply

Want better results? Combine intitle & inurl

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Narrow your search by looking for specific file types: Good for weeding out HTML files, and job postings.

Word = DocPDF = PDFPPT = PowerPointXLS = ExcelTXT = TextRTF = Rich Text Format

(intitle:resume | inurl:resume | intitle:cv | inurl:cv | intitle:vitae | inurl:vitae) ("sap retail" | sap.fico | sap=crm | "sap *") filetype:doc (NJ | new.jersey) -jobs -job

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site: will search the contents of a specific site only

For example: site:linkedin.com accenture sap chicago Will only search www.linkedin.com and will only find Information with the words, Accenture, SAP and Chicago.

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Boolean Operators:- ( ) “ “ NOT - AND & OR |

Live strings are similar to Google.

Examples:

Intitle(intitle:resume | intitle:cv | intitle:vitae) j2ee “new york”

filetyperesume (filetype:doc | filetype:rtf OR filetype:pdf) j2ee new.york

Intitle and filetype(intitle:resume | intitle:cv | intitle:vitae) filetype:doc j2ee new.york

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Modifiers

inbody: Finds words in the body of the pageintitle: Finds words in the title of the page (same as Google)inurl: Finds words in the URL (same as Google)contains: Will only bring up results that have a link to the file typefiletype: will only bring up the specific file type you are asking

EXAMPLES

intitle:resume J2EE contains:doc -job -jobs -send -submit –youintitle:resume J2EE filetype:doc -job -jobs -send -submit –youinbody:resume J2EE -job -jobs -send -submit -you intitle:resume J2EE -job -jobs -send -submit –you(inurl:cv | intitle:cv) J2EE -job -jobs

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Other Ways

1.(using me and my)sap resume (me | my) -job -jobs -submit –you

2. (using –send and –you)sap (filetype:pdf | filetype:doc | filetype:rtf) resume -job -jobs -send -submit -you

3. (using loc:US = pages from the United States(*@aol.com | *@gmail.com | *@hotmail.com | *@yahoo.com) "deloitte consulting" (sap | oracle) loc:US

4. Intitle:skillintitle:sap (resume | cv | vitae) (tx | texas) -job –jobs

intitle:j2ee (resume | cv | vitae) -tutorial -job -jobs

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Other Live Features

inanchor: returns results in the anchor, body, title, or web address of the site

inanchor:resume j2ee new.york -job –jobs

loc: returns web pages from a specific country or region

contains:doc (resume | cv | vitae) j2ee loc:US (resume | cv |vitae) loc:US New York j2ee -jobs –job

language: searches in a specific language

resume j2ee montreal language:fr site: searches only the site you specify (same as

Google)

site:linkedin.com (deloitte| pwc)

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