Thread: Anyone know of a good commission based search engine toolbar

Nope, but if you think you can get alot of signups for such a service than might be viable to make your own toolbar or get someone to do one for you.

Google 'toolbar' and theres a couple of adword adverts for companies that offer them.

I would recommend checking out www.rentacoder.com
or
www.Scriptlance.com

before splasing out big bucks to a company as some of the coders on there (particularly scriptlance) are excellent and offer fantastic value for money too..

I got let down a couple of times by rentacoder coders so I only really accept bids off rated ones now..

worth a shot and check out the prices for projects.. nice supprises..!

I've tried www.freelancers.net a few times, usually get about 200 replies, at least half of which are from people in India.
I'll take a look at those other 2 sites, do you get many replies from India from those ones?

What's wrong with getting replies from India?

A lot of UK companies use Indian programmers, they do good work and are a lot cheaper than people in the UK.

<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>A lot of UK companies use Indian programmers, they do good work and are a lot cheaper than people in the UK.[/quote]

95% of the developers the company I work for uses are based in India. They definately know what they are doing (the ones I've worked with have a lot better work attitude than many UK developers) and as JF says, they are paid peanuts compared with a UK developer.

Mirago were offering a revenue share on their toolbar but I cant remember the details as we haven't implemented it, Leigh from Mirago posted round here a while back and might have dropped here email if you want to give her a shout.

I have to add that the two coders who let me down were from india.. whilst there are fantastic coders from there (as every other country.. cept erm mongolia far as I know) some of them seem to have a problem with the concept of delivering what is agreed...

in fact some of them have a problem delivering anything at all.. !

then again I presume there are just as many slack american/british coders out there too..

pick only rated coders or dice at your peril.. unless it aint important and there is no deadline then give someone a chance who aint rated... but best thing is to give both positive and negative feedback where due...

<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>some of them seem to have a problem with the concept of delivering what is agreed...[/quote]

hmm that reminds me of my ISP's call centre in india.

I swear its like the cartoon I saw on BBC 3 once. Massive room full of cubiucals as far as the eye can see with people tapping at computers and a pad of post it notes.
"this is Nigel"
"I want to speak to Bob"
"Hold the line" Nigel writes out a new post it note saying 'bob' and sticks it on himself.
"this is bob"
and so on lies lies lies, cant deliver, useless at agreeing anything and thats just my ISP's call centre in india.