300 Best Boolean Strings

300 Best Boolean Strings Modern Search Rules and Examples by Irina Shamaeva

First e-Book Edition – January 2016 © 2016 Irina Shamaeva Cover by Peter T. Friedman

Published by: People Sourcing Certification Program, Palo Alto, California

SourcingCertification.com ISBN: 978-0-692-62086-1

Table of Contents INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................... 1 GOOGLE BOOLEAN SYNTAX ................................................................................... 3 Keyword Search ....................................................................................................................... 3 Simple Searches: Find Pages and Sites to Explore ................................................................... 3 Google Direct Answers and Knowledge Graph ....................................................................... 3 Quotation Marks ...................................................................................................................... 6 Advanced Operators – site: (X-Raying) .................................................................................... 6 site: - Searching Subdomains ................................................................................................... 6 site: - Search a Top Level Domain ............................................................................................ 7 site: - Search a Directory .......................................................................................................... 7 site: (X-Raying) Examples ......................................................................................................... 7 Advanced Operators – intitle: and inurl: ................................................................................. 8 Operator intitle: ....................................................................................................................... 8 Operator inurl: ......................................................................................................................... 9 Operators intitle: and inurl: in X-Raying ................................................................................ 10 intitle: and site: Strings .......................................................................................................... 10 inurl: and site: Strings ............................................................................................................ 10 Advanced Operators – filetype: ............................................................................................. 11 Google – Operator related:.................................................................................................... 12 Google – Operator define ...................................................................................................... 12 Google – Operator numrange: .............................................................................................. 13 Boolean OR Strings ................................................................................................................ 14 Boolean Logic – NOT .............................................................................................................. 15

GOOGLE BOOLEAN SEARCH APPLICATIONS ......................................................... 17 LinkedIn Profiles X-Ray .......................................................................................................... 17 LinkedIn /Title X-Ray Strings .................................................................................................. 18 LinkedIn - Other X-Ray Searches............................................................................................ 19 XING X-Ray Searches.............................................................................................................. 19 Google-Plus X-Ray Searches .................................................................................................. 19

Meetup X-Ray Searches ......................................................................................................... 20 About.me X-Ray Searches ...................................................................................................... 20 Twitter X-Ray Searches .......................................................................................................... 21 X-Ray Other Social Sites ......................................................................................................... 21 X-Raying Professional Databases for Resumes...................................................................... 22 X-Raying Zoominfo for Profiles .............................................................................................. 22 X-Raying Data.com Connect (Formerly Jigsaw) ..................................................................... 23 X-Raying Crunchbase ............................................................................................................. 23 Searching for Contact Information – Email ........................................................................... 23 Searching for Contact Lists .................................................................................................... 24 Searching for Diversity ........................................................................................................... 25

ADVANCED SEARCH ON GOOGLE ......................................................................... 27 Operator Asterisk * - Fill in the Blanks .................................................................................. 27 Asterisk * - site: Searches ...................................................................................................... 28

GOOGLE SPECIAL SEARCHES ................................................................................ 30 Image Search ......................................................................................................................... 30 Other Special Searches .......................................................................................................... 30

CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINES .................................................................................. 32 Search Everything (http://bit.ly/SearchEverythingCSE) ........................................................ 32 Slideshare Resumes (http://bit.ly/SlideshareResumesCSE) .................................................. 32 Slideshare CVs (http://bit.ly/SlideshareCVsCSE) ................................................................... 32 Email Formats (http://bit.ly/EmailFormatsCSE) .................................................................... 32 LinkedIn Persons (http://bit.ly/LinkedInPersonsCSE) ........................................................... 33 Meetup Persons (http://bit.ly/MeetupPersonsCSE) ............................................................. 33 Google-Plus Persons (http://bit.ly/GooglePlusPersonsCSE) ................................................. 33 Documents by Format (http://bit.ly/DocumentsFormatsCSE) ............................................. 33 Documents Storage (http://bit.ly/DocumentsStorageCSE) .................................................. 33 Diversity Associations (http://bit.ly/DiversityAssociationsCSE) ............................................ 33 Hidden Resumes (http://bit.ly/HiddenResumesCSE) ............................................................ 33 Emails in Resumes (http://bit.ly/EmailsInResumesCSE) ....................................................... 33 LinkedIn Countries (http://bit.ly/LinkedInCountriesCSE) ...................................................... 34 LinkedIn Language Proficiency (http://bit.ly/LanguageProficiencyCSE) ............................... 34 Google Domains (http://bit.ly/GoogleDomainsCSE) ............................................................. 34

Career Pages (http://bit.ly/CareerPagesCSE) ........................................................................ 34 Google Scholar Profiles (http://bit.ly/ScholarProfilesCSE) .................................................... 34 X-Ray About.me (http://bit.ly/XRayAboutMeCSE) ................................................................ 34 X-Ray Vizualize.me (http://bit.ly/XRayVizualizeMe) ............................................................. 34 Behance Resumes (http://bit.ly/BehanceResumes) ............................................................. 34 Twitter X-Ray (http://bit.ly/XRayTwitter).............................................................................. 34

BING AND OTHER SEARCH ENGINES .................................................................... 35 LINKEDIN.............................................................................................................. 36 LinkedIn Boolean Syntax ........................................................................................................ 36 LinkedIn Boolean Search Examples ....................................................................................... 36

TWITTER .............................................................................................................. 38 GITHUB ................................................................................................................ 39 FACEBOOK ........................................................................................................... 40 APPENDIX A – ALPHABETIZED LIST OF 300+ STRINGS........................................... 41 TIP SHEETS Google Boolean Syntax ............................................................................................................ 2 Look for What You Expect to Find ........................................................................................... 5 LinkedIn Boolean Syntax ........................................................................................................ 37

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