17. A non-transitory machine readable storage medium including instructions, which when executed on the machine, cause the machine to: extract a plurality of skill seed phrases from a plurality of member profiles of a social networking service; disambiguate the plurality of skill seed phrases to create a plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases; and de-duplicate the plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases to create a plurality of de-duplicated skill seed phrases, the de-duplicated skill seed phrases identifying a plurality of skills; and wherein the instructions for de-duplication cause the machine to: calculate a plurality of internet search queries, at least one for each of the plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases, the internet search queries, when executed returning a list of internet web pages; for each of the plurality of internet search queries, submitting to a crowd sourcing application, over a network, a job for which the crowd sourcing application returns a specific internet web page selected from the list of internet web pages that is returned from each of the plurality of the internet search queries, the specific internet web page representing an interpretation of a meaning of the disambiguated skill seed phrase corresponding to each internet search query; and use the plurality of returned specific internet web pages to determine which of the plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases identify identical skills.
17. A non-transitory machine readable storage medium including instructions, which when executed on the machine, cause the machine to: extract a plurality of skill seed phrases from a plurality of member profiles of a social networking service; disambiguate the plurality of skill seed phrases to create a plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases; and de-duplicate the plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases to create a plurality of de-duplicated skill seed phrases, the de-duplicated skill seed phrases identifying a plurality of skills; and wherein the instructions for de-duplication cause the machine to: calculate a plurality of internet search queries, at least one for each of the plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases, the internet search queries, when executed returning a list of internet web pages; for each of the plurality of internet search queries, submitting to a crowd sourcing application, over a network, a job for which the crowd sourcing application returns a specific internet web page selected from the list of internet web pages that is returned from each of the plurality of the internet search queries, the specific internet web page representing an interpretation of a meaning of the disambiguated skill seed phrase corresponding to each internet search query; and use the plurality of returned specific internet web pages to determine which of the plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases identify identical skills. 22. The machine readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the instructions further comprise instructions which when executed by the machine cause the machine to: calculate attributes about the plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases and store the attributes in association with the plurality of disambiguated skill seed phrases.