Linkedin – New Faceted Search Feature Added

Linkedin has always been amongst the forerunners in developing and providing us with the newest technology. Linkedin has now introduced a new way of search. Let’s see how it works out for us. Thumbs up for Linkedin team. (Courtesy: The Official Linkedin Blog)

Here at LinkedIn, we believe that people search is one of the most valuable new areas of search technology. Late last year, we announced the launch of the new people search platform, rebuilt from the ground up. Since that launch, I’m happy to report that the enhancements have resulted in nearly doubling overall search activity on LinkedIn. Thanks for tons of great feedback you provided since we launched that has helped spur these numerous improvements.

Today, I am excited to announce the release of another huge improvement to LinkedIn’s People Search experience: “Faceted Search”.

“Faceted Search” offers dynamic filters that are automatically generated based on your actual query results. These filters let you quickly and easily hone your query over 50 million LinkedIn profiles based on 8 facets: current company, past company, location, relationship, location, industry, school, and profile languages.

A new module titled “Refine By” will include a list of the most relevant facets, based on the actual results of your original query.

The filters are generated in real time for every query by parsing all matching results and extracting the most important attributes. We then present those to you in an intuitive interface that lets you select one or multiple filters per facet. You can refine, expand or stumble upon insightful information by simply clicking on the search options that matter to you.

Faceted Search offers the following benefits to your search experience on LinkedIn:

• Enables True Guided Navigation: A list of filters are generated dynamically for every search in order to guide you through the optimal path to find the most relevant people

• Provides Intuitive Interface: Refining your search is easier than ever with an intuitive user interface that allows you to slice and dice search results by 8 facets

• Improves Precision: As LinkedIn continues to grow by the millions, increasing search space requires increased precision to help you find exactly the right people

• Increases Efficiency: Find talent, business partners, customers or a former colleague faster than ever before.

• Reduces Need for Complex Queries: It significantly reduces the need for complex Boolean queries. This was a particular need we heard from many of our power users.

See the video tutorial by clicking here.

Facebook Translation – Awards being distributed for contributors

Two years have passed since the translation applications were launched by Facebook. A staggering 300,000 people participated for more then 70 languages. Facebook says this service has helped people stay connected in the language they feel most comfortable in, without regard to the number of people speaking the language. Facebook has also announced to reward their translators through extra recognition.

Facebook will give them special icons in accordance with the difference milestones reached by them. Facebook has categorized the awards into three categories and says the level of accuracy and frequency of contribution in activities like translating words and voting on the best translations.

• Voting Participation
• Words Published
• Translations Published

Facebook is starting nine more awards and looks to add more categories. These will help facebook put their translators in public spotlight, to value their worthy contributions. This is how facebook has recognized the contribution of their translators. ” We would have never accomplished so much so quickly without the help of all of you who have contributed to translating Facebook. Since the first translation, we’ve grown to more than 350 million users on Facebook, with 70 percent of them now outside of the United States. We appreciate the hard work from all of you who’ve taken part, and we hope you’ll enjoy translating even more with the new award system.

If you know multiple languages and haven’t yet tried the Translations application, we encourage you to give it a try here. Your contributions make a big difference.”

Courtesy : The Facebook Blog.

Linkedin navigation structure in process (The Official Linkedin Blog)

Linkedin working on site navigation structure to make Linkedin more user friendly for us. (Courtesy The Official Linkedin Blog)

A few weeks ago we announced we were doing limited testing of a new navigation design for LinkedIn. Thanks to all of you who have sent usfeedback. We are now in the process of rolling out the new design to all of our users. If you don’t see the change yet, you will sometime in the next week.The first thing you’ll notice in the new design is that there is no persistent left-hand navigation. All global navigation is in the top navigation bar. We did this in order to free up space for page content – information about you and your professional network.Another thing you’ll notice is that the new global navigation bar takes up less vertical space. Page content is moved up higher on the page – less scrolling!