I broke into the Vault using Ask.com
Most internet users don’t enjoy signing up for services to receive the information/data they are seeking. Placing personal information out there, no matter whether it is a simple email address or your name, is no fun for anyone. Paying for information is no fun either.
I was doing a quick search the other day, looking for salary information and company surveys for Bear Stearns & Co. when I came across Vault.com. Because Vault.com gives you raw facts from submitted surveys and reviews, I was quite curious to see what they were surveys referenced in regards to working for Bear Stearns & Co. Vault will give you a little snap shot into the submitted survey and then leave you hanging if you want to “read more.”
If you want to read more you must subscribe. Not just subscribe as a standard member, but you must be a GOLD member to read the surveys. Yeah. Pay up buddy.
All I could think to myself was “that sucks” and I almost by-passed the juicy office drama (or surveys as you’d like to call them), when I realized that there might be a back way into these pages by using search. I mean, they may be indexed right?
So as easy as it was, I went on Ask.com to use their search. “bear stearns vault.com” and I was already off to a good start with my results.
In the Ask.com search results, it allowed me to “view more results from vault.com” which I found quite nifty; so I took a peek. To my astonishment, I was viewing the results of the lovely surveys I was after with a direct link into their back end.
No signing up, no information required. I was in the vault!
That just shows you how knowing how to search can save you time and money. I broke into the Vault using Ask.com. I simulated these same results using Google, but it took a little more search criteria to get there.
