Comments on: Google all the way … in a scary way! http://manas.tungare.name/blog/google-all-the-way-in-a-scary-way/ Fri, 17 May 2013 16:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Manas http://manas.tungare.name/blog/google-all-the-way-in-a-scary-way/comment-page-1/#comment-8359 Manas Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:41:22 +0000 http://manas.tungare.name/blog/?p=160#comment-8359 Hi Andrea, thanks for the GA tip for other readers! I get queries for my name quite often, but those are hardly surprising or blogworthy. Here are a few more interesting ones:

  • Trying to be sneaky about Google projects!
    “inurl:resume google “mountain view” (confidential or announced) project”

  • Having participated in a workshop in Seattle got me on the radar of this recruiter.
    “(intitle:resume or inurl:resume or intitle:cv or inurl:cv) “.net” “c#” (seattle or redmond or bellevue or tacoma or everett) -free -submit -apply”

  • Based on this and other queries, if I had to give one piece of advice to a job seeker, it would be this: get a phone number within the area code of the area that you’d like a job in.
    “(intitle:resume or inurl:resume) -job -jobs -send -submit -you (“software engineer” or programmer or developer) (408 or 510 or 650 or 415) java”

  • IEEE Conferences seem important to this recruiter.
    “(inurl:resume or intitle:resume or inurl:cv or intitle:cv or inurl:vitae or intitle:vitae) (“software engineer” or “software developer” or “software programmer”) (c or c++ or java) (“ieee international conference”) javascript css -jobs”

  • No Ph.D.s, only Masters. I’m going to be overqualified.
    “(inurl:resume or intitle:resume or inurl:cv or intitle:cv) -devbistro (java) “computer science” -phd +masters”

  • Yayyy, at least one person is looking for HCI expertise for mobile devices!
    “(inurl:resume or intitle:resume) “(mobile or software) (developer or development or engineer or applications or design)” (php or java or j2ee) c (“interaction design” or “industrial design” or “human factors” or “human computer interaction” or hci) (motorola or samsung or blackberry or mobile or “hand held”)”

  • Wow, they’re looking specifically for BayCHI members! Professional societies help in more than one way.
    “baychi java c++ (“computer science” | cs) (inurl:~(resume|cv|vitae) | intitle:~(resume|cv|vitae)) -~jobs”

  • Someone specifically looking for contributions to the open source community, presumably.
    “inurl:~resume framework test gpa “open source”

  • Targeting conferences seems to be a recurring pattern.
    “chi 2008 resume”

  • Looking specifically for women?
    “”she is” software, developer, engineer (inurl:resume|intitle:resume)”

  • Zip code ranges … interesting!
    “((inurl:cv or inurl:resume)) (san-francisco or sunnyvale or mountain-view or ((94000..96000) ca))(qa or quality-assurance)( selenium or watir or xunit or php-unit, or junit or browser-based-testing or catching-regressions))-job -jobs -submit -apply -post -opening -position –opportunities”

]]> By: Andrea http://manas.tungare.name/blog/google-all-the-way-in-a-scary-way/comment-page-1/#comment-8354 Andrea Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:30:20 +0000 http://manas.tungare.name/blog/?p=160#comment-8354 I’ve repeatedly found complex headhunting Google queries like these in my Google Analytics logs. All of my site’s search referrals from Mountain View – and specifically from Google – are actually queries on my name, though. For those of us who don’t also have StatCounter, you can use a number of GA tools to get a reasonably good idea of who is submitting a wild query like that – simply click on the query and then use the drop-down to segment on City (or Network Location, but that might not tell you much). Alternately, you can click on a City in the Map Overlay and then segment on Keyword (or Network Location). If you have a relatively low-volume site, it can be pretty conclusive.

]]> By: Sameer Ahuja http://manas.tungare.name/blog/google-all-the-way-in-a-scary-way/comment-page-1/#comment-8290 Sameer Ahuja Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:46:34 +0000 http://manas.tungare.name/blog/?p=160#comment-8290 Ahha! There’s a potential book right there – well, at least a tutorial: on how to create a resume page on your website so that google’s HR notices you when it uses google to hire you for google.

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