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The Gatekeeper

Thoughts on search, recruitment, consulting… and other interesting stuff


  • Deep web search: searching the invisible web

    Thanks to a former colleague: Jeroen Fossaert, I'm now fully into exploring the so-called deep web. I've read his blog post on deep web search, and now I'm exploring this world beyond. Word goes that the information underneath the surface or normally searchable web is about 500 times larger!

    Anyway, these search engines that go a step further than Google or Yahoo prove to be an interesting search tool. As the 'traditional' search engines do not go into databases such as Facebook, deep web search engines also search resources that are not easily or entirely accessible or ...

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  • How to measure blogging

    Yesterday, I've written a small comment to one of Scott Axel's Fresh Meat posting here on ERE.
    He was wondering why some many people are blogging. And how does anyone find time to read all this stuff... Truely food for thought.
     
    But I was wondering: how do we actually measure success of blogging? And what does that mean?
    Surely, some bloggers just like like to share some thoughts and that's it. But others (like myself) hope that there might be something else that comes out. And no, I don't mean hard cash. (well euh, not necessarily ...

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  • some philosophy

    In earlier days, a recruiter was often seen as just an intermediate between "the company" and "the candidate". Someone who would help a company find an attract the best person for the job. Maybe that person would als offer some advice to candidates. But that would approximately sum it up. As a matter of fact, this was also how I considered myself to be...But, not any more.

    The enormous amounts of (new) availble resources, new market evolutions and especially new ways of networking and doing business have taken the job of recruiter to the next level.
    Being a recruiter ...

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