LinkedIn Launches Faceted Search Feature

LinkedIn has launched a new addition to its People Search Experience. It's called "Faceted Search".

Faceted search allows you to search for a person and narrow that search down by specific "facets" as you go along, in order to quickly find the most relevant profiles possible. Users are presented with categories under the following facets as they search: current company, past company, location, relationship, industry, school, and profile language. The following clip nicely sums up how it works:

"The filters are generated in real time for every query by parsing all matching results and extracting the most important attributes,"
Kozak says that Faceted Search improves precision, increases efficiency, and reduces the need for complex queries. "It significantly reduces the need for complex Boolean queries," he says. "This was a particular need we heard from many of our power users."

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