Out-googling Google
Posted on January 11, 2008
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Searching for something? Metasearch engines aggregate the results from a number of search engines while vertical search engines do the same thing but for a particular market or interest. And specialized databases of all sorts add to the great tools for recruiters on the hunt.
In no particular order, here are a few engines and databases to experiment with, compare search results…
Vertical search for job seekers [and sourcers!]:
- Indeed.com A search engine for jobs. The site aggregates postings from a variety job boards, corporate web sites, association sites and many other places. Useful tools allow you to view job trends, search salaries, and view jobs by state or category.
- SimplyHired.com Like Indeed.com in most respects with a similar offering of helpful tools.
- Jobster The site combines job postings from a variety of sources including those posted directly to the site by employers. Employers can also search the resume database.
- GetTheJob claims to represent the elusive “hidden job market” by connecting job seekers directly with the companies that are hiring.
For finding professionals:
- LinkedIn.com LinkedIn is an online global network of more than 17 million experienced professionals across 150 industries. Access to others depends on the size of your own network.
- Spoke An online business-to-business network with information on over 40 million people across more than updated to 2.3 million companies.
- Jigsaw Over 7 million business contacts from over 550,00 companies in a searchable online directory maintained by a community of over 300,000 members basically trading business cards.
- ZoomInfo A web-based service that extracts information about people and companies from millions of published resources.
- XING A Euro-centric professional network, directory of business contacts, contact management tool that lets you search across the network.
- Ziggs Search index of over 3 million professionals representing more than 90,000 companies from profiles posted on sites throughout the web.
For finding people and personal data:
- iNet-Investigation.com Provides you free public information links on the web. A searchable links directory of resources and databases is helpful with your online research.
- Pipl This engine searches for people gathering data from the “deep web” — documents and databases overlooked by the webcrawlers that produce ordinary search engine results.
- ZabaSearch A search tool that accesses public information and displays what is available in the public domain. An advanced search option helps narrow down the field.
- Argali White & Yellow A software download that searches multiple telephone and email directories. Matches are combined, formatted in uniform way and displayed as if they came from one integrated directory.
Metasearch and other search engines:
- Answers.com Ad supported references search
- Beaucoup A combination directory and metasearch site, with connections to 2500+ search engines, directories, and indices.
- Clusty Searches a number of free, search engines and directories but not Google or Yahoo. Results are organized in theme-based folders. Accepts advanced Boolean searches.
- Dogpile Searches Google, Yahoo, LookSmart, Ask.com, MSN search, and others. Trade off sponsored links with advanced Boolean searching.
- Ixquick Metasearch Searches 14 sites, lets you specify a Web search or a search for news, MP3 files, or pictures, and tailors your search for the parameters of each search engine selected)
- MySearchEngines Configurable metasearch site that lets you choose the engines you want results pulled from.
- Search Engine Colossus An international directory of search engines covering 343 countries and multiple languages.
- SurfWax Better with simple searches but useful for the larger number of sites searched, more if you sign up and share
- Vivisimo Collates links from 8 sites and groups results into folders. [Cautionary notes]
- Zworks Searches popular search engines simultaneously or individually and sorts results for relevancy. Includes filtered, Boolean and advanced options.
Did you know? These tools pages are being updated all of the time. You might want bookmark this page or consider subscribing to BROWN BAG RECRUITER instead.
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Another resource is my blog, http://www.AltSearchEngines.com. A member of the Read/WriteWeb network, we cover all types of alternative / vertical search engines daily and globally. Each month we also present the Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, and these are archived on the site as well.
Our motto is, “the most wonderful search engines you’ve never seen.” I invite you to stop by and take a scroll through our site.
Charles Kniht, editor
AltSearchEngines.com
Read/WriteWeb netwwork
Charles, fantastic resource – thank you!
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