Comments on: Why LinkedIn Frustrates Me

By: LinkedIn Rolling Out Faceted Search! | The Noisy Channel

LinkedIn Rolling Out Faceted Search! | The Noisy Channel — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:19:22 +0000

[...] that I known about this project for a while–they’d reached out to me after I offered a lukewarm review of their search–but I was asked to be discreet about that [...]

By: Daniel Tunkelang

Daniel Tunkelang — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:55:26 +0000

Well, I know that people at LinkedIn have heard my ranting, and I can only hope that they are working to address some of these concerns. As I said in the post, directories are a poster-child domain for faceted search.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:26:57 +0000

This post is right on the money; as a recently unwillingly unemployed person, LinkedIn becomes a more critical resource than ever before. It is very frustrating to stumble through people’s networks without any capability to navigate or discover options that present themselves based on the data. For example, since I’m interested in breaking into the marketing space, it would be extraordinarily helpful to categorize contacts by (sub)verticals within a person’s network. Or even consider contacts who have X number of years of experience who could be good mentors to be introduced to as part of an industry search. There are a lot of good user scenarios out there waiting to be built out.