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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