Like this real universe that we live in, the universe called the internet is also an ever-expanding dimension. There are virtually, unlimited streams of information thriving in it. Tapping into it can also give you immeasurable knowledge and unquantifiable information power.
But utilizing its full potential is still unreachable, even with the occurrence of sophisticated software and AI algorithms that endlessly scour its digital landscape just to chart and catalog all sorts of information. To make matters worse (although the intention is to make it better), search engines constantly change their searching algorithms to the frustration of web businesses.
No matter how witty you are in providing search keywords, plenty of irrelevant results are still served to you. As a solution, the combination of human and machine intelligence is employed to come up with the best possible results whenever the need for searching a certain piece of information is needed.
Armed with this realization, web experts invented these new kinds of jobs:
Search Engine Analyst
Online companies who hire people for the job usually commission their workers to do outsourced research for online clients in the most accurate and up to date manner. For instance, if a certain client asks, “How long does a person browse through bookshelves on a bookstore before actually buying a book?” the researcher would conduct a series of searches across the web to provide the most useful and helpful results.
Many web businesses hire a search analyst so their page can rank higher in Google or Bing. The employee will then give his thoughts about why the company’s page ranks low in search results and provide techniques on how to be more visible in web searches conducted by most people.
Internet Safety Evaluator
This job is for someone who evaluates search results to see if they are suitable enough for a certain group of audience. For instance, you could be tasked to provide a review of web content that could be offensive to some people. If a website or webpage contains too much explicit content or any type of information that is unsuitable for children, you could write or say it in your report to give a fair warning to potential online customers.
Anyone who wishes to work as an internet safety evaluator must expect to be a first-hand audience to sensitive and gruesome content that appears on the internet. He or she must also be very good at categorizing such content so that they can only be consumed by the worthy and so that the unworthy may evade them.
Search Results Rater
A person having this job is one that ensures quality search results. By being a rater, you will rate a particular batch of search queries and give ratings that pertain to their relevance. For instance, you might want to give 5 stars to a search result that exactly fits a searched item, or you could give 1 star to something that is very far from what the item is really all about.
While raters can’t really be responsible for a website to banned or blocked due to low-quality content, the data that they provide is a great help in improving search engine algorithms.
Social Media Assessor
Social media sites are the best hangout for all internet users. For this reason, various ads and marketing content are ever-present there. Certainly, they can make businesses grow faster and reach out to more people. But the content that flocks within social media pages could be irrelevant to what it is that some clients are looking for. This is where social media assessors do their jobs. They ensure that the content viewed by netizens on social media sites is relevant and useful.
Since social media content appearance is based on a user’s browsing patterns, it is important for an assessor to have a broad comprehension of people’s preferences pertaining to age, gender, and over-all social media activity.
Online Maps Analyst
Finding the location of a certain place today is easy thanks to web resources like Google Maps. If you are good at finding landmarks and reading maps or sketches, then this job could be for you. As an online maps analyst, your task will be finding certain business establishments and check if the information provided for them are accurate, relevant, and up-to-date.
Working for this job also means you will be tasked to extract and analyze data, and classify them geographically. You might also be commissioned to work with satellite-given information and create maps in digital and hard copy formats.
Those are the most popular jobs in which all you do is conduct searches. Sounds easy, right? So what are the stuffs that you need for the job? In addition to your computer and internet connection, you need to have:
a smartphone installed with the latest search apps
active email and social media accounts
good communication skills
good researching skills
familiarity with web navigation and search engine optimization
The good thing about these jobs is that they require no special educational attainment levels. High school graduates can easily apply for them. During the application process, you may experience some or all of the following:
making your online profile and submitting your resume
an interview
an online test
Once you get hired, you will be given a set of reading materials to study for. Some of these materials could be very lengthy. You need to thoroughly study them so you can be truly effective and efficient with your job as a researcher.
Depending on your job description and on the company you’re applying to, the training process could be very lengthy as well. The bad thing is that getting inside the training regimen won’t guarantee that you can really get the job. It is a means of evaluating you, so you could be kicked out of the game if the company deems you unworthy.
About salary matters, you could earn around $6 – $15 per hour.
Since we’re talking about online freelance jobs here, what time you work is just up to you. It is important to note however that most companies require that you work for them for 10 – 20 hours a week. Some companies also have a different mode of payment. They could pay you per query or per question. The more of it that you can answer, the more bucks you can earn.
I think these are the new generation engineering branches ^^ Going to a workplace to work with people sounds quite obsolete in this era 😅