a search engine syntax
DESCRIPTION
An Idea On Search EngineTRANSCRIPT
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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 struts Google: 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 struts Google: 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 –apply Google: 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 words Ex: ~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 = Doc PDF = PDF PPT = PowerPoint XLS = Excel TXT = Text RTF = 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:skill intitle: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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