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We are migrating our newsletter from Revue to Substack. Expect to hear reports on sourcing challenges and techniques, changes in search algorithms, and announcements of sourcing classes for Recruiters.
You (the Audience)
If you are a Recruiter, Talent Acquisition Manager, or Sourcer who uses online search to find potential candidates or clients, you will benefit from our updates. We take Google’s and LinkedIn’s temperature by daily testing their algorithms as well as discover techniques while sourcing hands-on, and share the latest.
The State of Search
There are:
Google Boolean search
Google search
LinkedIn Boolean search
LinkedIn search.
Out of the four, two are intentionally “broken” due to semantic components, and one is broken due to bugs. We have been able to get in touch with the engineering management and hope issues will be fixed. One works fine but produces unexpected numbers – and lists - of results – something that has started to happen only recently. We were lucky to get attention and hear insights straight from Google Developers who shed some light on the mysteries.
Where to Learn More
Watch Irina Shamaeva’s informal chat with Hung Lee and Alla Pavlova about Google search on Brainfood Air.
Attend a repeat of the (previously sold out) webinar Search Is No Longer Boolean on December 6th for details, examples, and workarounds.
Community
Join our 10K+ members strong Facebook Group Boolean Strings if you haven’t for sourcing questions and discussions.