Company profiles are now public
Fundamentally, the Internet is about connecting people to information. Every business needs to connect with partners, customers and potential recruits to succeed. Starting this Thursday, we’ve made portions of our company profiles accessible to search engines–this way, when you search for ‘Houston medical device companies’ or ‘Open Geophysical’, you’ll now find information at your fingertips with LinkedIn company profiles in your search results.
Technically, it’s pretty simple:
• Allow anonymous access to our company profiles
• Provide friendly URLs, e.g.: http://www.linkedin.com/companies/paypal
As a regular LinkedIn user, when you follow any link to a company, you will see the usual company profile page, customized for you. For anonymous access (anyone who is not signed in) we changed the layout a bit.
Take a look: Amazon, NVIDIA, Intel (make sure you’re signed out).
We’ve got over 160,000 company profiles, which anyone can now link to, find in web search results (google: eBay), run through a translator (Yahoo! in German), etc.. These company public profiles are densely linked both with each other and with our member public profiles, making for a pretty substantial web of publicly available data.
Check out our directory of companies to make sure your company’s profile is up-to-date. If we don’t have a profile for your company, add it here.
Send us your feedback and any ideas you have for how we can help companies better express themselves.
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Susan Ireland November 19th, 2008
This could be very useful for job seekers researching prospective employers!
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patrick naughton November 20th, 2008
I find the whole company creation function the weakest on Linked-In. When you imput past or present positions there is no prompting with possible company listings so that unless you input the name in exactly the same way that colleagues have already done, you end up creating a new company which makes finding past colleagues far more difficult.
When I have finally tracked past colleagues I find that we have all done the same thing and there are six listing for what is effectively the same company.
Andy Maddigan November 21st, 2008
I am a bit reticent about posting Q’s to groups as those Q’s then show up as activity on my part to my whole network. For ex., say I am working with a recruiter (who is in my network) on a job with a co. in LA. Meanwhile, I also have an interest in another job in NY and I post to group indicating my interest in that (NY) job or industry or attempt to get contacts. I am concerned the recruiter would then see my activity and be less likely to promote my candidacy vigorously with the LA co. Can I post a Q in a group and designate that only those group members see it?
Thanks
Mario Sundar November 23rd, 2008
@Patrick and @Andy,
Thanks for your feedback. As you’re probably aware, this is an early iteration of Company profiles. Stay tuned for further updates, right here on the blog.
Mario from LinkedIn
Samuel Kyeremeh December 13th, 2008
I’ve been trying for some time now to find the button ‘unsusbscribe’ on your website but to no avail.
Could you please delete my details (Samuel Kyeremeh, Scottish Environment Protection Agency) from your database.
Thanks.
Samuel
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Mario Sundar December 15th, 2008
@Samuel,
You can find answers to most of your questions on our customer service site – http://linkedin.custhelp.com/
You can also reach out to our CS team via the same site. Hope this helps.
Mario from LinkedIn
John Mathew December 15th, 2008
Hi,
Does linked in is supported by the Search Engines and also can i find business dealing members on Linkedin as you can view it in my profile too.
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Sean Gallagher January 17th, 2009
Hi,
Thanks for letting us know, I just found out about this post through webpronews.com. This is great news, I’m glad other people will be able to find my company.
Our main site is at http://www.gallagherwebsitedesign.com
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