I don't know if AOL can qualify as anything close to a search engine. but they are branching into India. With this in mind, have you made any plans to pick up any work from the lthe very place that sucks up outsourcing dollars?

Don't know what kind of work it would be and the fact that paypal isn't available there really limits things. I've had bad experiences in dealing with any Indian sites and or providers so it won't lure me there again.

i have actually have had great experiences with India design work. i also believe that you can get a paypal account in india, just don't think you can get verified?

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If Paypal cannot be used then there is also E-gold, but I just assume that as people from India become a larger market, there will be other acceptable means of money transfer. The problem I see developing is the fact that they don't have the spending power to make it worth while, yet.

Most of my experience has been with writers, and it hasn't been a good one. On one site where several were hired, there were so many blantant cases of plagiarism that I did a little research. It seems in India that copying another's work is considered a form of compliment, and it is prevalent even amongst university scholars and teachers.

I think AOL must have a big plan. It seems to me that that company is trying to take advantage of the cheap labor in India to carry out this plan.

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You are probably right. It is a shame that companies will take advantage of cheap labor and people who don't know what their efforts are truly worth.

I know people who use customer service groups out of India to staff their sites. It isn't all that easy or that cheap. In the US and UK it is very difficult to hire anyone to do phone or internet based customer service. When you hire in India, you pay a large sum up front to train people to do the job, and the attrition rate is horrible. So you pay six to be trained and end up with one that works out.