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posted by on July 14, 2007
This is very exciting stuff... and you get it here first!
 
We've been limited in our ability to search for users geographically on LinkedIn. Internationally all we could do was select a country and search "country wide." In the Unitied States we were limited to a 50 mile radius, or what I like to call the "metropolitan area." This was somewhat limiting when searching in spread-out areas like the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, and Atlanta.
 
Now for the great news...
 
With tonights update if you are a paid subscriber to LinkedIn you can now choose if your search should include users that are 10, 25, 50 or 100 miles around your zip specified zip code. Perfect. Now I can include several neighboring towns if I choose do cast a wider net, or I can focus in on the "north side" or the "east side" of a larger city.
 
But the best part is that this includes Canada and the UK! That's right! Its now possible to do a zip-code-by-radius search there as well!
 
Oh and one last thing... if you go to the "Your Network" page LinkedIn now shows that there are 12+ million users, instead of the 11+ million it was showing.
 
Actually, the number is fast approaching 14 million, and by the end of the summer by my estimates there will be 15 million!
 
 
Cheers,
Shally 
 
 
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  • 1 point 23 months ago

    Now that its back I tested it and here's what I found out:

    First - yes this radius serch definitely works, and it works very well.

    Second - its a PRO feature only. Pro is the highest level of paid subscription, the one priced at $200 per month or $2000 per year. Premium users can search by radius, everyone else is limited to the 50 miles default. Accourding to the little explanation link next to te radius search data for this feature was provided by geonames.org.

  • 1 point 23 months ago

    All day today I have been getting:

    "Your LinkedIn Network Will Be Back Soon

    We?ve notified our operations staff that you are having a problem reaching LinkedIn. We?ll get you reconnected soon.

    You can leave this window open and we?ll automatically take you back to your LinkedIn home page in a few minutes.

    We apologize for the interruption."

    Are you getting this too? I can't test the "level of user" but I am a Pro so maybe this is a Pro only feature, or maybe they were just trying it out, but I definitely saw it in there and I played around with it. I can't test it again until it comes back up.

    I suspect they may be experiencing heavy traffic due to their announcement today that they plan to do an IPO.

  • 1 point 23 months ago

    I have a Business account, and I have not seen this yet. Is there a specific account you must have?

  • 1 point 23 months ago

    Today is the 16th and I'm a paid business account and yet I see nothing about this search criteria? Is it working or did they postpone the implementation? Or am I missing something, like a higher level paid account?

    -mike

  • 1 point 24 months ago

    Now if phone numbers were somehow included.....