Today Linkedin announced that their members will, as of today, start seeing improvements to the networking site for professionals. They have unified the search experience so you no longer have to search for different things separately such as people, jobs, companies and groups.
Linkedin state that “all you need to do is type what you’re looking for into the search box and you’ll see a comprehensive page of results that pulls content from all across LinkedIn including people, jobs, groups and companies.”
They have also added some other features to make search smarter:
- Auto complete
- Suggested Searches
- Smarter Query Intent Algorithm. With these three features the more you search the more you will be understood and the suggestion etc will be tailored specifically to you. This means that now two peoples search results will ever be the same.
- Enhanced Advanced Search – Deepen your search with additional filters
- Automated Alerts – Save your searches and you will be alerted if the results change later on
Linkedin also state that their “search efforts are founded on the ability to take into account who you are, who you know, and what your network is doing to help you find what you’re looking for. And we’ll continue iterating on this with better ways to surface new kinds of content across Linkedin as well as more personalized results. The new smarter search is starting to roll out to members today and will be available to all global members in the coming weeks.”
This all sounds very impressive and it will be interesting to see how it changes search results, I will try it over the next week or two and let you know my thoughts, it will also be interesting to see your opinions which you can leave in the comments box below.
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Chris Jones 