If you understand how Google parses queries, you can turn it into a lightweight recruitment or job-discovery engine.

Let’s break down an example query:

(site:careers OR inurl:careers OR inurl:join-us) 
("frontend engineer" OR "front end engineer" OR "frontend developer") 
("remote" OR "work from home") 
("India")

Now, we will analyze:

1. What each part does
2. Why it works
3. How to systematically improve it

Query Structure Breakdown

Google supports Boolean operators and search operators. This query combines:

• site: → Restricts search to specific domains or subdomains
• inurl: → Matches keywords in the URL path
• "" → Exact phrase match
• OR → Logical union
• Parentheses → Grouping

Now let’s evaluate each clause.

A. Careers Page Targeting

(site:careers OR inurl:careers OR inurl:join-us)

What it tries to do:

Our aim to directly target companies. We don't want to have job portals like LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, and others to show up. Hence, we limit results to company career pages.

• site:careers it matches domains like careers.company.com, but not /careers paths.
• inurl:careers catches URLs like:
  • company.com/careers
  • company.com/careers/frontend-engineer
• inurl:join-us captures startup-style URLs.

B. Role Filtering

("frontend engineer" OR "front end engineer" OR "frontend developer")

Why quotes matter:

Without quotes, Google may match pages where:

• "frontend" appears somewhere
• "engineer" appears elsewhere

Quotes force phrase-level precision i.e. we want those pages where "frontend engineer" appears as a phrase, not individual words appearing separately on the page.

C. Remote Constraint

("remote" OR "work from home")

This ensures work-mode filtering. We are currently searching remote jobs. Hence, the filter. You can extend it futher like:

• "India - Remote"
• "Remote (India)"
• "Distributed"
• "Anywhere in India"

D. Location Constraint

("India")

This ensures:

• Job listing explicitly mentions India. It can be extended to:
• "Bangalore (Remote)"
• "Remote - APAC"
• "Remote - Asia"

Why This Query Works

It combines:

• Structural filtering (URL-based)
• Semantic filtering (role + remote + location)
• Phrase precision (quotes)
• Logical grouping (parentheses)

This reduces noise significantly compared to:

frontend engineer remote india

Let us discuss some improvements

We optimize along the following axes:

1. Expand role vocabulary
2. Expand remote vocabulary
3. Improve careers page targeting
4. Remove aggregators

Excluding Job Portals (Cleaner Results)

("frontend engineer" OR "frontend developer")
("remote" AND "India")
(inurl:careers OR inurl:jobs)
-site:linkedin.com -site:indeed.com -site:naukri.com -site:glassdoor.com

This forces company-owned pages by using -site: filter.

ATS Targeted Version (Recruiter-Level Precision)

If you want to target companies using ATS platforms such as:

• Greenhouse Software
• Lever
• Ashby

You can target them directly:

site:boards.greenhouse.io "frontend engineer" "India" "remote"

site:jobs.lever.co "frontend engineer" "India" "remote"

Structural Template You Can Reuse

Here’s a reusable architecture:

(CAREERS_PAGE_FILTER)
(ROLE_SYNONYMS)
(LOCATION_FILTER)
(WORK_MODE_FILTER)
-AGGREGATOR_SITES

Think of it like writing a SQL WHERE clause.

Searching Based on Intent

If You Want Product Companies Only

Exclude outsourcing giants:

-Infosys -TCS -Wipro -Cognizant

(Used as negative keywords.)

If You Want 3–7 Year Roles

("3+ years" OR "4+ years" OR "5+ years")

If You Want React-Specific

("React" OR "Next.js" OR "TypeScript")

Ready To Use Query

It targets career pages of companies that offer remote frontend engineer roles and excludes recuriting websites.

(inurl:careers OR inurl:jobs OR inurl:join-us)
("frontend engineer" OR "frontend developer" OR "ui engineer")
("remote" OR "Remote (India)" OR "India - Remote")
("India")
-site:linkedin.com -site:indeed.com -site:naukri.com -site:glassdoor.com

Interview Preparation

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