Here are few examples of what you can do with custom search:
G-Recruiters Profile Finder A useful way to search for people, by skill sets and job titles etc. with results coming back from resume databases social networks, personal homepages, blogs and so on.
G-Recruiters Gurus’ String Finder A fun tool for people who want to see how the best practitioners put search syntax together plus excellent tips and tutorials for the masters.
G-Recruiters Microblog Search A search engine for finding people and topics from Twitteresque sites from around the globe.
Vertical Intelligence is a series of “blog-enabled” search engines. This site links to different types of example and includes a video tutorial that will walk you through the steps of creating your own.
Since Google made changes to its search engine results page recently it seems the frequency of it’s CAPTCHA page blocking advance search queries has become a problem for a lot of people.
Google embodies the idea of “perpetual beta.” While that has some advantages in the bigger scheme of things one of the disadvantages for users is that they become familiar and even reliant on services that are subsequently discontinued.
Google Notebook is a recent example of this and from a couple of years ago, Google Deskbar. These once indispensable apps are no longer supported by Google the idea being that we all move along as Google evolves. But for some of us that plain sucks.
“At Google, our goal is to create the most comprehensive, relevant and fast search in the world. In the past few years, an entirely new type of data has emerged — real-time updates like those on Twitter have appeared not only as a way for people to communicate their thoughts and feelings, but also as an interesting source of data about what is happening right now in regard to a particular topic.”
I’ve had Boolean search on my list of training needs for a while to become a better source. Could it be that the hype for resumes via Google is louder than the reality? Consider the following experiment comparing quality of resume search results when using Google vs. the Monster resume database from Boolean Black Belt…
The presentation was originally intended as the first in a series of three. 18 months later and here we are, G-Recruiting. Go figure… Read the rest here »
Ever since the new Google Blog Search homepage launched, we’ve been fielding requests for a myriad of different features. Today we’re happy to announce the launch of our most requested feature: RSS and Atom feeds. Simply click on the links under “Subscribe” in the left-hand column of the Blog Search front page to subscribe to any topic or story in any feed reader, like Google Reader.
If you don’t use a feed reader, we’re also offering an iGoogle gadget that lets you embed the Blog Search front page right inside of your iGoogle page or any other page where iGoogle gadgets are accepted. You can browse topics and drill into stories from within the widget, and you can customize the gadget to choose which topics you want to follow.
