Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

What is PersonalSearchAgent.com?

PersonalSearchAgent.com is a search engine, but with a human difference. Rather than typing in keywords and only getting results based on what’s available on the web from a farm of computers, at PersonalSearchAgent.com you submit your request using your native language, and your request is sent to a list of human Agents or Experts, who have subscribed to your area of interest and specialized in that field.

Consider a simple case and popular situation: searching for a job. You can submit a search to one of the major search engines, or even to one of the 40,000+ jobs sites located in the US, but the results returned are never exact and often not close to what is requested. Furthermore, only about 15% of the available jobs are ever posted on the internet at any give time, so the results returned by any site misses the other 85% of jobs that are available.

The same situation occurs when searching for other items or services, including autos, real estate, travel information, or people. Only a fraction of the available real world information is published on the web, and of that, only a fraction of that is indexed by the major search engines.

PersonalSearchAgent.com revolutionizes the way people search and find information, using the Internet as a delivery mechanism, but relying on human intelligence or human connections to find the information sought. We seek to use the power of the Internet, combined with the knowledge of humans and provide a safe and defined environment where they can meet and begin an interaction or relationship.

There are channels of information (jobs, real estate, products, services, etc). There are information seekers, people looking for a job, people looking to buy or sell real estate, etc, and there are information provides, Agents, or Experts in one or more channels. PersonalSeachAgent.com acts as an intermediary agent between these two groups of people, facilitating the contact and interaction in a safe and defined environment.

Agents or Experts would include people or companies who have the knowledge required to fulfill a search request. This would include Recruiters, Auto Dealers, Travel Agents, Real Estate Agents, etc. These people have the knowledge, the connections and the desire to received pre-qualified requests for information in their domain of expertise.

Seekers of information would include job seekers, people looking for a new or used car to purchase, people looking to buy or sell a house, etc.

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How much does it cost?

The cost for using our service is simple. There is no cost to submit a search request. Once reviewed, your search request is set to all subscribers to the information you’ve requested.

If you receive a search request, there is no cost to read and review the search request. There is a small fee to reply to a search request, which will be displayed on the search request form. At the present time, all replies for all categories is set to $0.10 (ten cents). This rate is subject to change in the future, and may vary based on competition from other search replies.

Each account is created with $1.00 in Personal Search Agent cash, so the first 10 replies are free for all members.

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How Does It Work?

To use PersonalSearchAgent.com is simple:

1. Sign up for your free account. This is needed so the site can communicate with you.

2. Next, as an information seeker, submit your search request. Your request will then be sent to all members who have subscribed to your area of interest, in the location you've specified. If they choose to reply, all replied will be sent to your inbox on PersonalSearchAgent.com for you to review. No personal information is exposed when submitting your request, and you define what information you wish to include in your search request.

3. As an information provider, after creating your free account, log into the site and choose the channels you would like to subscribe to (receive search requests for). For example, as a recruiter, you may choose from among the job categories that you specialize in.

That is all it takes to get started. After creating an account and setting up subscriptions you can expect:

1. As search requests are made on the site, we review each request to filter out spam, and forward only those that are valid search requests. You then have the option to reply to the search request, or ignore it.

2. As a information seeker, for example a Job Seeker, you gain direct access to recruiters and hiring manager for potential jobs that may not yet appear on major job sites, or search engines.

3. As an information provider, you get qualified leads delivered to your inbox for free, and can choose among the best leads to respond to. The cost to respond can be as little as 10 cents, or in the future, you will be able to bid with other providers to allow your responses to appear first in the seekers inbox.

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What Does PersonalSearchAgent.com Solve?

PersonalSearchAgent.com also solves several problems with typical searches and search engines. When searching using a search engine, typically you are given a list of results, often numbering in the millions, with most of the result being useless or non-relevant to what you're seeking. The top most results are typically paid advertising which may or may not match what you're looking for, followed by results that typically have been manipulated to appear higher up in the search results. As an example, search for Oil Spill in Google, and you'll immediately see BP's advertisement for how they are handling the oil spill in the gulf.

When submitting a search request on PersonalSearchAgent.com, your search request is sent directly to agents who have subscribed to receive search requests for your location and you category of search. These could recruiters for jobs, real estate agents for housing, people or companies selling products or service, etc. You can then have them compete to reply to your request in the timeframe you've specified. As an Agent (ie recruiter) you receive pre-qualified leads for free, and as a seeker, you receive replies that match your search request. No more do you have to sift through 100s of advertisements that may have nothing to do with what you're searching for.

As a provider of information (ie recruiter, real estate agent, etc) what does PersonalSearchAgent.com provide for you?

First, you no longer have to pay for clicks that result in nothing. If you current advertise using a search engine, such as Google, check your conversion ratio, if you have one setup. This is the ratio of clicks on your ads that have resulted in direct sales or leads that match your conversion criteria. Typically these rates are well below 5% (check this article on conversion ratios at http://index.fireclick.com ) This means that over 90% of your costs are spent on clicks that result in no conversions. With PersonalSearchAgent.com, you receive qualified leads directly to your account, and after reviewing the lead, you choose if you would like to respond. For merchants, this is like receiving a pre-qualified customer into your store, its up to you then to convert that customer into a sale.

We invite you to try it out for yourself, and provide us with your feedback. There is no cost for trying out this free service, and for those who help in our beta program, they will receive a free $100 credit to their account once we finish with our beta program!

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