This topic continues from the earlier
introduction to Omgili in Part 1 and aims to use it for a sample job search. As an example let us search for
sales jobs in Memphis, TNUsing Omgili basic searchEnter the terms
memphis sales job in the search box. Omgili stems keywords by default so it will show results containing the keyword 'jobs' as well.This search gives
2077 results.
Changing the order of the words will change the number of results, so
job memphis sales gives
1862 results.
The
results can also be sorted by relevance or date to get the latest results at the top. The search can also be added as an
RSS feed to your favourite feed reader (Google reader, Bloglines, etc.). All these options are located on the upper right corner below the search box of the results page.
As can be seen, the results even when sorted by relevance are not very relevant. This raises the need to fine tune the search further and that means using the advanced search operators which we check out next.
Using Omgili advanced searchThe
Omgili advanced search helps us build more relevant queries. It helps us
- Target our search based on specific sections of the post such as the title, topic or reply.
- Eliminate results containing certain words
- Chose the forum name containing certain words
- Choose the forum by specific forum e.g. phpbb.com
- Choose the language
- Chose date ranges
- Chose sorting by relevance which is the default or date
- Choose the minimum number of replies for the post
- Choose the number of unique users involved in the discussion
- Choose the number of engaged users involved in the discussion (users who contributed atleast 100 words to the discussion)
- Disable keyword stemming which is enabled by default.
Now that we know what we have, let us use the above options to make our earlier search more specific.
- memphis and sales are required keywords
- Since some forums allow a seperate section for jobs, we can start by putting the word in title and later in topic
- We keep stemming enabled so that the keyword jobs is not missed.
- We choose the language as English
- We chose the date as last 3 months. This autofills the date range.
Using job in
title gives just
2 results.
Topic is better and gives
87 results. This looks a bit more relevant but still some results are for moves by high profile sports coaches. So let us put the word
coach and
miserable for elimination. This gives us
69 resultsThe 2nd discussion result is about a medical device sales job. The 8th result 'My company is hiring' looks relevant as well. But after the 1st page the results are not very relevant. Another weakness is the lack of a filter for inappropriate content.
With some practice and search refinements, we should get some relevant forums to track for jobs.
Omgili extended boolean search termsThe extended boolean search terms are basically search terms developed by the search tool to use directly in the search string. Our advanced query above looks like this in the search box.
memphis sales intopic:job -coach -miserable language:english from_date:20090109 to_date:20090409If we select a specific word, say sales in the above we get a
small menu just above the search box. It gives the option to convert the word sales to intitle:sales or boost its weightage by adding ^2 to the term as shown below
memphis sales^2 intopic:job -coach -miserable language:english from_date:20090109 to_date:20090409
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