I apologize for the reference to Spinal Tap, but this is my personal blog after all.
I normally don’t post most LinkedIn announcements here, but this one is too big to ignore.
On Monday, LinkedIn made faceted search available to all members. This effort brought to fruition efforts that date back to 2007 to completely rearchitect and redesign the LinkedIn search experience based on the unique characteristics of people search.
Rather than try to describe the feature here, I’ll just point to the formal LinkedIn blog post by Esteban Kozak, and embed his great youtube video on the feature:
The news coverage has been flattering:
What’s most exciting to me, however, is that these are still very early days in the development of the LinkedIn search platform. It took LinkedIn over five years to amass its first billion queries. This year alone, LinkedIn will exceed that number by a wide margin. People search requires unique investments in structured data, relationship information, search intelligence, and personalized relevance. (If you’re curious, the Boolean Black Belt got a sneak peak at some upcoming features).
I just wanted to take a moment to say kudos to the entire search team for this tremendous achievement that cuts across all areas – product, design, research, web development, engineering, marketing & operations.
Twitter integration, Open developer program, Faceted Search. What a great way to launch into the holidays.
Can’t wait for January 
Posted in LinkedIn, Product Management, Silicon Valley, Software Tagged: Faceted Search, People Search
