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Thursday 21 May 2009

does anyone know how to get the 3rd degree connections to consistently show up in a people search?

Alison's Contribution:

People search results are limited by the type of account you have. With a free account, you will need to narrow the search significantly to find all the level three contacts in the 100 result limit.

Rather than go through the hassle of doing a search multiple times in LinkedIn, a different way (and I would say better for many instances) is to do a GOOGLE search (which will let you look at up to 1000 results) with the following parameters:

"search terms" site:linkedin.com -inurl:dir/ -inurl:companies/

if you simply use "New York", there are over 2m results with the following string (so you'll need to add more search parameters):

"new york" site:linkedin.com -inurl:dir/ -inurl:companies/ -inurl:events. -inurl:groups -inurl:groupinvitation -inurl:jobs -inurl:updates

Let me know if you want any help finding a closer match to what you seek.

All the best,

Alison
posted 11 hours ago

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