Here is a List of People Sourcing, Internet Research, and Social Recruiting Tools and Resources. Except as otherwise noted, only listing free tools (or those with useful free options).

1. List of Favorite People Sourcing and Research Tools
Irina Shamaeva’s Blog
Last Updated: April 25, 2013
Here is a List of People Sourcing, Internet Research, and Social Recruiting Tools and Resources. Except as otherwise noted, only listing free
tools (or those with useful free options).
"Dream Software" Contenders (all paid):
 Dice Open Web
 Swoop
 Entelo
 Talentbin
 Gild
 Remarkablehire
International Social Networks:
 XING
 Orkut
 Viadeo
 Skillpages
Social Cross-Referencing:
 Rapportive
 Falcon
 WhoWorks.At
Email Verification:
 MailTester
 Fonant Mail Tester
Automation/Scheduling (mostly for Social Media Management):

2.  HootSuite- (supports all major sites, full social media management suite)
 Buffer- a lighter-weight solution than Hootsuite, great for just scheduling updates (Twitter, LI Profile/Group, FB Profile/Pages -
no G+)
 Dlvr.it- Content sharing management to social networks
 If This Then That- Create automation 'recipes' (one 'trigger' with one 'action') - interesting, but somewhat limited.
 ZipRecruiter- job distribution
 Bullhorn Reach - job distribution
Standalone URL Shortening:
 Goo.gl- easy, fast, and excellent, but no privacy control
 Bitly - also with chrome extension, has privacy control for links
File Storage and Sharing
 Dropbox (also has a link shortener for sharing) - great for videos, images, and anything else (no built-in document editors)
 Google Drive- seamless integration with Google 'office' document editing apps, but weak support for other files (most features
don't work or work as well)
 Box - a not quite perfect blend of the above (sort of supports document editing with your desktop apps)
Other Productivity Browser Add-Ons (Chrome and FireFox):
 Fastest Chrome
 Fastest Fox
 iMacros Firefox
 iMacros Chrome
 Search by Image (Chrome)
 Selection Search (Chrome)
Scraping, Parsing, Filtering, and Sorting:
 Outwit Hub
 Outwit Docs
 Broadlook Contact Capture
 Free tools from eGrabber
 Email Extractor
 ScraperWiki
 Automated Prospecting (a Chrome extension)
 Scraper (a Chrome extension)
Search Engines:
There is a search engine for every occasion. Take a look at the "Wikipedia article some time, to see if one better fits your needs. Some of my
favorites follow:
General Search
Note: this is actually a complete list of general search engines that index web pages globally. DuckDuckGo combines a bit of indexing with
sending queries to other places, including Google.

3.  Google- still the biggest and best, most of the time
 Bing- worth a look for some types of search (or side-by side with Google via the various Bing Challenge portals)
 Duckduckgo- worth noting primarily because it can be used as a 'search dashboard' - pass searches from DDG into your engine of
choice
 Yandex- A big out-of-US competitor to Google, still better in Russian than English, but getting there.
 Blekko - curated, spamless search, comparatively tiny index, extremely interesting public data dumps
Real Time / Social Search
 Topsy
 socialmention*
 Google Alerts
 LinkedIn Alerts
 talkwalker
Twitter Based
 ManageFlitter
 SocialBro
 Klout
 followerwonk
 Twellow
 Tweepz
Past Search
 WayBack Machine - Internet Archive
People and Company search
 LeadFerret
 Zoominfo- Easy x-ray for basic info
 Jigsaw- Share your contacts to review others
 ImpluCorporation- info on public companies
 InsideView
 Link Silicon Valley
 Whois - any whois is okay, this one just has an easy bypass for sales stuff
 Pipl
 PeekYou
 ZABA®SEARCH
 Yatedo
 WIEOWIE
Free Resume Search
 Indeed.com
 TheLadders
LinkedIn-Based
 LinkedIn Signal

4. Custom Search Engines (Here are some CSE’s we’ve built)
 Hidden Profiles
 Emails in Resumes
 SourceCon 2011 Challenge #1 — Julia Tverskaya (Software Engineers in the Bay Area)
 Hidden Resumes
Please let me know what else should be added to the list. Thanks!
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