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The Big Deal about Bing for Sourcing and Recruiting

I’ve been a Google search fan for many years – since 1998, and I’ve used it exclusively for all of my search needs, both personal and professional.

Until recently.

That’s because I’ve discovered that Bing has a number of advantages over Google when it comes to sourcing candidates, including:

  • Cleaner, shorter, simpler and effective LinkedIn X-Ray searching
  • Effective Twitter X-Ray searching
  • Never doubting your humanity and refusing to run your more advanced queries
  • Configurable proximity (although I just learned Google has a similar capability)
  • Converting searches into RSS feeds Continue reading