Sourcing link and search-string collection
Primary sources checkedThe Sourcing Links
Collection of search engines, prepared boolean strings and lookup tools for sourcers, organised on one page so you stop retyping the same searches.
The short answer
- Best for
- Sourcers who search across many sites by hand
- Not ideal for
- Anyone expecting software — it finds nothing by itself
- Price
- Free tier with an account, then from USD 5 per month
- Closest alternative
- None selected yet
At a glance
- Recruitment fitStrong
- Ease of useUnknown
- ImplementationStrong
- Price transparencyFair
- Value for moneyFair
- ScalabilityUnknown
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitStrong
- It exists for one job only: prepared boolean strings and site-specific searches for sourcers.
- Ease of useUnknown
- We have not worked with the collection ourselves, and there is no independent account of it.
- ImplementationStrong
- A page of links behind an account. There is nothing to install, connect or configure.
- Price transparencyFair
- The entry price is published, but what the free tier limits and what the higher tiers add is not clearly stated.
- Value for moneyFair
- It costs about as much as nothing, but a link collection ages and we could not establish who maintains it.
- ScalabilityUnknown
- There is no published team plan, and nothing tells us whether an account is meant to be shared.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
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The SourcrLab bottom line
A sourcer's bookmark bar, maintained by someone else and organised by job: search engines, prepared boolean strings, phone lookup and email validation. It buys back the minutes you lose remembering where things are, nothing more, which is a fair thing to pay five dollars a month for and a strange thing to compare against a sourcing platform.
Best fit
Manual sourcing work where the friction is remembering which site, which operator and which string, and you would rather have them collected than rebuild them each time.
Think twice if
Anyone expecting software. This finds nothing by itself: it is an organised set of links and prepared searches, and the work still happens on the sites it points at.
SourcrLab assessment
Everything on this page comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on the dates below. SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work, so you will not find a first-hand opinion here.
Why choose The Sourcing Links?
Someone else maintains the bookmark bar
The site advertises more than 55 search engines, 236 prepared sourcing strings, 49 custom search engines, 58 phone lookup methods and 38 email validation tools, grouped by what you are trying to do.
It costs about as much as nothing
A free tier to look around, then USD 5 a month at the entry level. Against the price of any sourcing platform, this is not a budget decision.
Main trade-offs
It is not free, which our own record used to say
There is a free tier, and above it Bronze at USD 5, Silver at USD 20, Gold at USD 40 and Platinum at USD 50 a month. An account is required to use the collection.
A link collection ages
Search operators change, sites close, and a prepared string that worked last year can return nothing today. How often this collection is refreshed is not published, and that is the whole question with a product of this kind.
We could not establish who runs it
The site names no owner beyond a location. Our previous description attributed it to a well-known sourcing figure; we could not source that on the site itself, so the claim has been removed rather than repeated.
Pricing and buying reality
Free tier, then from USD 5 per month
- Free: limited access, account required
- Bronze USD 5, Silver USD 20, Gold USD 40, Platinum USD 50 per month
What we do not know
- What each paid tier unlocks beyond the tier above it
- How often the collection is checked and refreshed
- Who owns and maintains it
- Whether annual billing exists
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. The Sourcing Links website
How it fits your stack
Works with
- Whatever you already search with, since it points outward
Likely replaces
- A personal bookmark folder of sourcing sites and saved strings
Check before buying
- Whether the free tier already covers what you use
- How recently the links and strings were updated
Used The Sourcing Links?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Free tier plus four paid tiers, USD 5 to USD 50 a month — checked against a primary source: The Sourcing Links website
- An account is required — checked against a primary source: The Sourcing Links website
- Counts of search engines, strings and lookup tools — vendor claim, not independently verified: The Sourcing Links website
- Who owns and maintains the collection — not enough evidence
- How often the links are refreshed — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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