![]() These folks could actually display group logos on their profiles, but searching for group logos won’t retrieve them because LinkedIn isn’t allowing search engines to “see” them.ģ. That means you can’t retrieve their profiles if you search for anything beyond their name, industry, and location. Even if people choose to make their public profile “visible to everyone,” if they select “Basics,” the only things that LinkedIn allows search engines to “see” are a person’s name, industry, location and number of recommendations. People can choose to make their public profile “visible to no one” (see the image below for LinkedIn public profile content settings), meaning their profiles are not crawlable/indexable by search engines and thus cannot be retrieved.Ģ. Some people’s LinkedIn profiles are invisible to search engines which means you can’t X-Ray search them. If it’s not there to be “seen” by Google, you can’t retrieve it.ġ. If someone chooses not to display the group logo on their profile, then you won’t be able to use Google to find people in the manner demonstrated above presumably because the logo (and associated logo phrase) won’t be on their public profile. Keep in mind that people have the option to not show the logo of a group they’re in on their LinkedIn profile. That opens up a whole different can of worms, so to speak. However, while the number matches between Google and LinkedIn, the people do not. ![]() Net, and, using LinkedIn’s brilliant Any Group functionality, I searched for members of the Front End Developers Group. I then decided to check LinkedIn Recruiter looking for people who live in the Greater Boston Area and either mention C# or. If you click to page 2, you can see there are really only 11 results. However, you should never pay attention to Google’s “About XX” results. Site: “front end developers logo” (C# |.Net) “location * Greater Boston Area” So, in order to leverage that specific format/order of words, I constructed a quick search targeting the LinkedIn group that the person from the original question that caught my eye was trying to target, which was the Front End Developers group, using “ Front End Developers Group logo” in the string: You can see that the the logo image is followed by the phrase “Boolean Strings – the Internet Sourcing Community logo.” Here’s what I saw after using CTRL-F to search for the word “Boolean:” Then I right clicked to viewed the page’s source: It was clear that much has changed since Balazs wrote the above post nearly 3 years ago and that, among other things, “logo GROUP NAME” no longer works as it once used to.Īs such, I decided to take a look into one of the actual profile results and view the cached version to see what Google was hitting on. I used his search and noticed the total number of results was very low (only 2 pages) and also that there were many false positive, non-profile results. Here’s the sample string Balazs offered: site: inurl:(in | pub) “logo Boolean strings” -inurl:dir Now, I have a LinkedIn Recruiter license and I don’t often X-Ray LinkedIn to find specific group members, so I poked around a bit on the topic and found this little gem posted by Balazs, my former partner in world sourcing domination, back in 2011: I was going to quickly answer with a cleaned-up search string, but what really caught my attention was that he was trying to target folks in a specific LinkedIn group. Site: “Front end developers group” (.Net |dot Net) Greater Boston Area) -dir -job -jobs -sample -samples -template -resume service -resume writers -resume writing Here’s the original search that was shared in the request for help: Some of you may enjoy and appreciate seeing my methodology, others will likely learn a thing or two about using Google to search for people in specific LinkedIn groups, and I’ll remind you of a few reasons why you can’t find everyone on LinkedIn using Google, Bing or any search engine other than LinkedIn’s. In this post, I am going to share with you the journey I took and the discoveries I made while investigating the answer to a Boolean search request for help I recently came across online about using -dir in a Google X-Ray search of LinkedIn.
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