oDesk search sucks
It’s 8:30 on a Thursday night so I will keep this short. oDesk search sucks. It’s almost worthless. No, it is worthless. Since a picture is worth a 1000 words I turn this post over to the pics.
1. Search for a Graphic Designer with perfect 5 star rating and in the $15 and up price range.
OK, the #3 result is actually for a graphic designer, but that’s the only one on the first page.
2. How about Accounting and Bookkeeping $15 an up.
Hmmm…notice that 2 of the first 3 results are the same for both of those? I’ve never met a graphic designer doubling as an accountant, but maybe there are a couple out there. Let’s try one more.
3. Administrative support $15 and up.
It’s our good pal Sunny J. again (Norman H. is just slightly below the fold).
I agree! I just searched for “Adwords” and 2 of the top 5 results don’t actually specialize in AdWords, but happened to have those words in loosely related projects they’d worked on (e.g. the programmer who had done a project involving “Google Adwords API integration”.) The search algorithm doesn’t differentiate between keywords you put in your own profile vs keywords that appear in projects you work on, so it creates some bizarre results.