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 All,

We have been working on improvements to provider search, to help buyers find the most relevant providers for their jobs, and to help providers stand out from the crowd. The biggest improvement is introducing a relevance algorithm (to replace our current default feedback-and-hours ranking). Another goal is to emphasize recency -- this will allow newer providers to level the playing field a bit vs. people who have been with oDesk for years. If we focus just on earnings in the last 3 or 6 months, then it will only take a few months for new providers to ascend up the rankings.

To that end, we would like to emphasize recency on the provider profile:

My main question is, how do you feel about the new "Earned:" row? The idea here is to show all earnings, not just hours. This would include bonuses and fixed price payments, not just hourly earnings. It does not calculate any hourly rate information, or introduce any new information we don't show today (other than giving providers credit for bonuses and fixed price earnings).

Now, we know that many of you have concerns about rate privacy -- there has been a very active discussion here on this topic. Know that we are working on financial privacy controls, which will give you the ability to control who can see your financial details, especially the assignment history details.

What do you think? I would love to hear from both sides of the debate here.

Michael

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