Tag Archive for 'search'

The Unknown Cybersleuth

Published by Amitai Givertz on March 30, 2009 in Recruiting and That's Life. 2 Comments

John Sumser’s controversial post Digging Into RecruitingBlogs.com v2.08: The Death of Sourcing has has inspired a great debate about the state of our industry and the area of specialization we call “Sourcing.”

John suggests that “Former sourcing luminaries will be familiarizing themselves with the alarm on the French fry machine and the relative difference between Rare, Medium and Well done.”

Oh, dear.

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The Sirens of Search

Published by Amitai Givertz on February 28, 2009 in That's Life. 1 Comment

I have been on a quest to find a search engine that will know what I’m looking for without me ever having to input a search term, let alone search strings, symbols or syntax. No, not natural language but something even less tiresome…brain waves perhaps.

More than that, I want the aggregated results to be served in context, arranged in folders by media and domain, sorted by date and relevancy, cross referenced to each other, color coded and appropriately tagged. Peer reviews would be nice.

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