Human Capital makes up 70% of most companies’ expense line, and people are a company’s most valuable asset. With the proper data, finding the best … Read more
Can You Pass Sourcing Games?
Every true sourcer enjoys a good challenge. At times, our profession can undoubtedly become monotonous. Not every search bewilders our mind and sharpens … Read more
Track Your Searches And Increase Your Sourcing Speed With Google When: The Bunt Hit For Sourcers
When you bunt in baseball, more often than not, it is to help get a runner into scoring position or to get them even closer to scoring. In other words … Read more
The Art of Building a Google Custom Search Engine – Part 3: Site Searches With a Side of URL Manipulation
In the first entry of this series, we went over some basic methods in building a Custom Search Engine (CSE) to search a specific site (like Manta.com). … Read more
The Art of Building A Google Custom Search Engine – Part 2: Searching the Entire Web
After countless hours list diving with various strings using filetype, list, and inanchor operators, I found some strings I like to use regularly. However, … Read more
The Art of Building a Google Custom Search Engine – Part 1
In my constant exploration of sites to pull information from, it’s easy to get lost in the syntax and forget how to properly site search each and every … Read more
Digging into Semantics
Sourcers are only but as good as the information they find. So how can semantic searching help retrieve the best information? Very different than Boolean, … Read more
Our Favorite Facebook Sourcing Tool Just Received A Major Update
Shane McCusker has done it again. If you don’t know McCusker or have used his extremely popular Facebook Sourcing Tool, stop what you’re doing … Read more
Enhance Your Google Search Experience
I am a huge fan of sourcing with Google. Who isn’t? But there are ways to make Google look even better. Adding three tools and using them in tandem can … Read more
Entering the Matrix: Robots.txt URL Sourcing
List diving and web scraping has definitely become an art form in recent years. I’m lucky enough to chat with Aaron Lintz once in a while and absorb some … Read more