You can see that the the logo image is followed by the phrase “Boolean Strings – the Internet Sourcing Community logo.” Here’s what I saw after using CTRL-F to search for the word “Boolean:” Then I right clicked to viewed the page’s source: It was clear that much has changed since Balazs wrote the above post nearly 3 years ago and that, among other things, “logo GROUP NAME” no longer works as it once used to.Īs such, I decided to take a look into one of the actual profile results and view the cached version to see what Google was hitting on. I used his search and noticed the total number of results was very low (only 2 pages) and also that there were many false positive, non-profile results. Here’s the sample string Balazs offered: site: inurl:(in | pub) “logo Boolean strings” -inurl:dir Now, I have a LinkedIn Recruiter license and I don’t often X-Ray LinkedIn to find specific group members, so I poked around a bit on the topic and found this little gem posted by Balazs, my former partner in world sourcing domination, back in 2011: I was going to quickly answer with a cleaned-up search string, but what really caught my attention was that he was trying to target folks in a specific LinkedIn group. Site: “Front end developers group” (.Net |dot Net) Greater Boston Area) -dir -job -jobs -sample -samples -template -resume service -resume writers -resume writing Here’s the original search that was shared in the request for help: Some of you may enjoy and appreciate seeing my methodology, others will likely learn a thing or two about using Google to search for people in specific LinkedIn groups, and I’ll remind you of a few reasons why you can’t find everyone on LinkedIn using Google, Bing or any search engine other than LinkedIn’s. In this post, I am going to share with you the journey I took and the discoveries I made while investigating the answer to a Boolean search request for help I recently came across online about using -dir in a Google X-Ray search of LinkedIn.
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