Freelance Job Search at donanza.com

Freelance job search engine donanza.com was conceived in 2008 by Liran Kotzer, Gil Pal and Ami Dudu and launched in June 2009.

donanza.com claims to automatically index more freelance jobs than any other site in the world and specialises in freelance online projects – from programming to music, graphic design and copywriting. The vertical search engine gathers projects from hundreds of freelance marketplaces, crowdsourcing sites, and other sources. Users can search by job type, project type, payment type and range, project date and expiry date.

According to crunchbase.com, donanza.com indexes freelance projects from more than 600 websites and displays around 70,000 active projects over several categories, with a growth rate of approximately 4,000 new projects a day. Location becomes less important as the jobs are international, and freelance, with most working from home.

The website launched in alpha mode at the beginning of June, and in a blog post the company wrote:

“As permanent- and temp-job opportunities are shrinking those days, the amount of contract work that is being posted on freelance job sites is expanding. What’s more, it’s moving beyond computer-programming and graphic-design gigs posted by small employers to include listings from larger companies and projects in many diverse fields such as accounting, law, engineering and sales. Here at DoNanza we aim to help you take advantage of these trends and hope to enable you to make a fortune (or at least living) from home.”

donanza.com also likes to practice what they preach and has recuited freelance staff to create their site on donanza.com. As they write on their website:

“At DoNanza we put our money where our mouth is. We believe in all of you, and so many aspects of the development of DoNanza were published as online projects and were executed by the community. Aspects like developing the site´s UI, developing great deal of the engine itself, finding the different platforms publishing jobs, indexing the data, evaluating the search engine algorithm, QA and many more were published as online projects and were completed by the community. We want to thank all of you.”

The company has recently embraced Twiiter, saying: “For our specific community we have gone a step further in addition to our @DoNanza user we have created several verticals that you can follow on Twitter that will give you updates you several times a day about new freelance projects in your field”.

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