Hello everyone,
Just a quick update today to inform people about a new website I made this weekend. The website is a freelance job search engine.
The search engine crawls RSS feeds from freelance job websites and posts them onto my website, in categories and using keywords.
So far I have some 5000 jobs listed from this week, and the best thing is you don’t need to sign up and its all 100% free.
Here is an extract from the “About Us” section:
Hello and welcome to Freelance Job Search.
Freelance Job Search was set up to fill the problematic situation faced by many web developers. At the moment there are several different sources of freelance work and classifieds on the internet which can lead to confusion and missed opportunities or even worse – the requirement that you register with them before you can view advertisements.
Freelance Job Search employs bot and RSS technology to grab this information direct from these websites, Organising the information received into human readable text , generates keywords from the feed content and then finally stores this information to our databases. By doing this we allow our visitors to search for specific keywords or area’s across numerous websites. The best bit? We are free to use.
History
Freelance Job Search started its existence as a personal tool for our web developer, Dave Berry. He wanted a way to quickly find out what jobs where available from across the web, without the need of visiting and logging into every website. He first approached the companies to find out if they developed RSS feeds, unfortunately at the time the majority said no.
Not wanting to be left with the needless task, David set to work creating a simple tool which would grab information from the websites and display them when he logged in. After talking about his tool to several other freelancers, it became clear there was a need for this tool to be released to the public.
Not wanting to deter users Dave decided from the offset not to charge users* any money, and to keep his website free for everyone.
So its really really free?
Yes, everything you see on the website is free to do, this includes browsing jobs, visiting job pages, twittering us, linking your profile to our homepage and support (if required).
The only things we do on this website would is used to generate money are the following:
A reference is sometimes placed on your clicks, this does not cost you anything but produces a little money for us.
Advertisements (although we try to keep these tasteful, relevant and to a minimum)
Job Posts (although these are currently not active).
