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11.10.08
How To Create LinkedIn Search For Your Company Site
 By Dave Taylor
I've been building a reference site for use inside my company and am wondering if there's any way to hack LinkedIn so that we can have a LinkedIn search box for individuals who work
in our company? Yeah, we should have a company directory, but the boss is a huge LinkedIn fan...
Dave's Answer:
Well, that's a novel use of LinkedIn. You do realize that each person who uses the search will have different results, because it's their LinkedIn account that will be used as the basis of how LinkedIn will actually present the results, right? And that the people whose records match will still have mostly non-functional data entries for your employee because if you aren't linked to someone you can't see most of their profile?
I don't quite understand your logic here, but I can still show you how to reverse engineer the LinkedIn people search and create what you seek nonetheless.
The easiest way to accomplish this seems like it would be the basic people search that you see on the top right of most LinkedIn pages:
However, it's not a freeform box a la Google, so you can't do a search like "company: Microsoft name:smith,john", so in fact it won't work. Instead, we're left having to explore the far more complicated "Advanced Search", which is easily reached by clicking on "Advanced". Now we're in more sophisticated territory:
Continue reading this article.
About the Author:
Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is
internationally known as an expert on both business and technology issues.
Holder of an MSEd and MBA, author of twenty books and founder of four
startups, he also runs a strategic marketing company and consults with firms
seeking the best approach to working with weblogs and social networks. Dave
is an award-winning speaker and frequent guest on radio and podcast
programs.
AskDaveTaylor.com
http://www.intuitive.com/blog/
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