Comments on: LinkedIn Hacks: Advanced Search Operators

By: Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:32:00 +0000

You can do that search, but there is a bug right now where it doesn’t handle “present company” and “past company” correctly – we should have it fixed in a few weeks.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:43:52 +0000

sorry for repost but forgot to check the notify me by email
of followup comments, so reposting …

Can one do advanced search like the following – it does not
seem to work for me but perhaps am getting syntax not correct ?

all people who now work at company A AND who worked in past at company B

there are adv operators pcompany and ccompany but yet
in regular advanced search choices are only for either
previous company or current company or both — but
if both would just return people who now or in past worked
at the chosen companies,

NOT those who now work at company A AND who worked
in past at company B

Any suggestions ?

By: Patrick OMalley

Patrick OMalley — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:31:03 +0000

I realized that when I saw the Learning Center page, but still thought my Ppat line was funny.

By the way, the new search features didn’t work when I tried them, and I’m a search guy (former VP for Northern Light, the search engine that was tied with Google in 2000).

Shame, because they would/will be cool.

By: Adam Nash

Adam Nash — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:09:02 +0000

ccompany: stands for “current company”, which differentiates it from “past company” which is pcompany:

By: Patrick OMalley

Patrick OMalley — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:16:53 +0000

Good article. By the way, I think you spelled ccompany wrong.

Ppat

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