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Note: Freelancer.com's quarterly jobs report finds less demand for cheap articles and more projects for iOS and Android developers.
While the U.S. economy demonstrated some strength in April with the addition of 244,000 jobs, the news wasn't entirely good: The jobless rate, derived from a different data set, rose to 9% from 8.8% last month.
Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, an online job marketplace, suggests that Google may have played a role in the rising unemployment, though mainly outside the U.S. The search company's recent "Panda" algorithm change, implemented to reduce the presence of low-quality content in...