http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/11/25/linkedins-new-search-platform-a-review/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:45:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thenoisychannel.com/2008/11/25/linkedins-new-search-platform-a-review/comment-page-1/#comment-2683 Why LinkedIn Frustrates Me | The Noisy Channel Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:03:03 +0000 http://thenoisychannel.com/?p=859#comment-2683 [...] With that preamble out of the way, I’d like to vent a bit about LinkedIn’s approach to search. Directories are a poster-child domain for faceted search. LinkedIn specifically has high-quality semi-structured data, since users are personally incented to optimize their own findability. Moreover, the process doesn’t even seem adversarial–I haven’t seen any Joe the Scammer claiming to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company (oops, bad example). LinkedIn has done the best job I’ve seen of aggregating high-quality data about people’s professional history–in a volume that is not only unprecedented but more importantly is large enough to be broadly useful. And the site designers clearly care about search: they still proclaim above the search box, “New Improved Search!” (see my earlier review here). [...] [...] With that preamble out of the way, I’d like to vent a bit about LinkedIn’s approach to search. Directories are a poster-child domain for faceted search. LinkedIn specifically has high-quality semi-structured data, since users are personally incented to optimize their own findability. Moreover, the process doesn’t even seem adversarial–I haven’t seen any Joe the Scammer claiming to be the CEO of a Fortune 500 company (oops, bad example). LinkedIn has done the best job I’ve seen of aggregating high-quality data about people’s professional history–in a volume that is not only unprecedented but more importantly is large enough to be broadly useful. And the site designers clearly care about search: they still proclaim above the search box, “New Improved Search!” (see my earlier review here). [...]

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