So you should have all watched Brainfood Live last Friday on the death of LinkedIn X-ray - if not, please do so
here. A few commentators mentioned that there are more to ‘sourcing than just LinkedIn’ which is true
but …got me thinking about what other sites are beginning to also block Google from crawling their pages, essentially sacrificing SEO in exchange for protecting IP for a future AI trained on proprietary data. Turns out, it’s getting to be
quite some list. Future of the Internet will become a series of walled gardens, with attendant implications for recruiters.