Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Flipboard 0 Everyone’s favourite professional network now boasts some 330 million member profiles, 2 million jobs, 3 million companies, 2 million groups and a lot of status updates, comments, published posts. All that information will have to be organised somehow and since Yahoo! have recently closed their original web directory, we’ll have to rely on search for this. Anyone who has had the pleasure of using LinkedIn search will know that it’s not exactly as clever as Google’s. And it’s not as clever as Facebook’s new Graph Search either. But the good news is that LinkedIn are working on it and here are a few updates: A search box that brings up anything you might be looking for Just by entering ‘Richard’, the universal search engine gives you plenty of options to choose from in terms of people, companies, showcase pages, groups and universities. This can sometimes get very confusing when a company has a brand page, group and maybe even a business school in their name. Be sure to click on the correct category as indicated on the left. A search box that understands your dodgy spelling When I tap in “Reed Hoofman” the top bar actually picks up Reid Hoffman, as well as Reed Hofmann, Rod Hoffman etc. This is clever and these results are based on alternative ways of spelling names, your connections, companies or groups you may share with that person. Find anyone, no matter how little you have in common on LinkedIn No longer just for premium account holders, everyone can now find people who are not connected to you at all on LinkedIn. I’m guessing they have added this feature to give people a better chance of checking out whoever they are about to meet in that interview, sales meeting or at that conference. Pretty useful and nice to see LinkedIn actually throwing free users a bone for once. And note that this is not limited to finding people you already know the name of, but also keyword searches such as “director sales acme” below. Once you click on a person that is not connected to you in any way, you’ll still find that you won’t be able to see their full profile and you can’t send them a connection request. You can of course send an InMail but LinkedIn will charge you for this. How many LinkedIn searches can you do on a free LinkedIn account? Some users have noticed that along with the improvements in search, LinkedIn have also restricted the number of searches users can make per month. They don’t tell you the user exactly how many searches you can make but will warn you when 30% of your searches are left, and then remind you in 5% increments. Once you have used up your search credits in a month, you have to wait until the first day of the next month when you receive new credit. Or you could always upgrade to a premium account for unlimited searches. This really depends on how much you use LinkedIn in my opinion, most members won’t be running daily searches but plenty of recruiters, sales and marketing professionals will be. What do you think of the new LinkedIn search experience (and limitations)? Please let us know in the comments below! Twitter Tweet Facebook Share Email This article originally appeared on jorgensundberg.net and has been republished with permission.Find out how to syndicate your content with B2C Author: Jay Leonard Jay is a UK-based cryptocurrency expert, specialising in fundamental analysis and medium to long term investments. Jay has a great deal of hands-on experience in analysing financial markets and performing technical analysis. Jay is currently focusing on the institutional adoption of cryptocurrency and what it means for the future of … View full profile ›More by this author:Top Trending Meme Coins: ELON, HOGE, SAMO, TAMA, MARVIN, BABYDOGE, MONAHotbit Exchange Forced to Suspend Service As it’s Under Criminal InvestigationCameo CEO Steven Galanis Wallet Hacked – $231k Worth of NFTs Stolen