This is pretty disgusting. Nowhere does it indicate that it pays for professional quality work. Google pays its quality raters $14-20 an hour part-time. Yahoo hires internal web analysts on staff for a little over 30k to start. This is not a free job like the website is suggesting. This site will always be limited, because it assumes that information professionals do not value their time. Now you are talking about saying your search results will be high quality, actually from masters level trained people.
When you ask someone to rate something based on your professional skills, it is a professional activity. I have done searches for people on pay for searching the internet. Nowhere do they list hiring librarians on staff, yet they claim that you can become a free club member and provide reliable engaged search results for free of course. The whole site is very condescending.
Leslie Poston
· 1 year ago
"For those of us who prefer to do our own sorting, Hakia won’t be the answer," (I would be one who'd rather vet my own search results, but that doesn't mean the site wouldn't work for someone else)
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When you ask someone to rate something based on your professional skills, it is a professional activity. I have done searches for people on pay for searching the internet. Nowhere do they list hiring librarians on staff, yet they claim that you can become a free club member and provide reliable engaged search results for free of course. The whole site is very condescending.