Friday, 11 November 2011

Identified, The Search Engine For Professionals, Opens Public Access To Its 50 Million Rankings

85818v7-max-250x250In September, two Stanford Business School, grads Brendan Wallace and Adeyemi Ajao, launched the beta build of Identified, a professional job search engine built on Facebook data that looks to take on LinkedIn and BranchOut (among others) in an effort to give job seekers and companies a better way to connect and find talent. The main feature of Identified is its so-called "Identified Score", which assign a numerical rank (out of 100) to professionals based on their work history, education history and social network. Wallace and Ajao call these rankings "Google Page Rank for people"; just as the search giant ranks websites based on their relevance to certain search terms, Identified uses its scores to do just that with professionals. The ranking is a proxy for relevance, so based on a user's most up-to-date background information, they will show up in searches for categories that are relevant to their most recent jobs, etc.

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