Abstract: A data search system provides access to information about potential job candidates, in particular, their professional skills, work experience, education, professional activity and other aspects, which are of importance to a recruiter. The invention can be employed by recruiting agencies, HR departments, independent experts and other staffing agencies, as well as managers looking for new employees. Since there is usually no direct links between different profiles of the candidate, the system makes some distributed profiles “fuzzy” (i.e., unverified). These “fuzzy” profiles are also displayed during the search, and the user of the system can choose the needed profile from the database.

Abstract: A data search system provides access to information about potential job candidates, in particular, their professional skills, work experience, education, professional activity and other aspects, which are of importance to a recruiter. The invention can be employed by recruiting agencies, HR departments, independent experts and other staffing agencies, as well as managers looking for new employees. Since there is usually no direct links between different profiles of the candidate, the system makes some distributed profiles “fuzzy” (i.e., unverified). These “fuzzy” profiles are also displayed during the search, and the user of the system can choose the needed profile from the database.

Abstract: A system for secure distributed data storage that uses a network, where the system includes a file stored on a plurality of storage elements that are accessible over the network. An access control list associated with the file includes a list of users with read access to the file and a list of users with write access to the file. Data representing contents of the file, metadata associated with the file, data related to functioning of distributed data storage and the access control list is available to users of the network.