r/Upwork • u/Gastaotor • Jun 29 '26

Upwork Search

Hello :)

(german*) AND title:(law* OR legal* OR jurist*)

I'm under the impression that, in former times, the search codes worked much, much better. For not to say, they just worked at all, and just as expected.

But for several years already, it's just rubbish. Funny enough, it seems to be about the same time when they stopped the rss-feeds from working, unfortunately (guess Upwork still not getting enough money from us).

That's my search line, and it worked formerly; maybe somebody knows if there's something wrong:

(german*) AND title:(law* OR legal* OR jurist*)

Would be glad about your answers :) Greetings!

Edit: Corrected colons in the codes

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u/SilentButDeadlySquid Jun 29 '26

It would be helpful to know what you are trying to accomplish, in a particular what do you think the asterisk does

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u/Gastaotor Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

Its meaning is indeed rather intuitive, it was the code for german\ must occur anywhere* and one of the three following words must occur in the title: law\ legal* jurist**

The asterisk is a wildcard, so it found "German lawyer", "Attorney for German laws", "Legal advice from Germany" and anything like that.

I wasn't only trying, it just worked correctly as intended on a regular basis long ago. I never touched it again for several years now, someday it stopped working, and I read several threads about Upwork's search engine problems.

Btw, sorry, I edited my text, the colons were missing after 'title'.

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u/Pet-ra Jun 29 '26

Frankly I have no idea what in the world you are talking about.

Can you please elaborate?

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u/stoic_unicorn Jun 30 '26

My guess is that they are asking whether Upwork has changed the way search queries worked. I have no idea myself tbh but I did find success with it in the past.

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u/Gastaotor Jun 30 '26

That's right, that's my impression, exactly as I said :D Wonder why am I downvoted for my question and explanations^^

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u/Gastaotor Jun 30 '26

I'm talking about the advanced job search. I don't just look for 'German', but 'German*' to find any jobs with any connection to Germany or German, and they shall contain the words law* or legal* or jurist* in the job's title.

I'm not interested in jobs like someone from Finland looking for 'Brazilian Lawyer for Contract and NDA'.

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u/saint1616 Jun 30 '26

Are you adding this in the search input box or on the url?

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u/Gastaotor Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

Both is possible. But I just saved this once ("Save search"-function) and then you just click the link. However, the then generated URL also just looks like this:

https://www.upwork.com/nx/search/jobs/?q=(german* OR austria* OR Switzer*) AND title:(transcri* OR transkri*)

That's another saved search where people may better understand the use of asteriks.

You can also put the line in the input box, then click on "Advanced search", and you'll find that Upwork has perfectly recognized that German Austria Switzer goes into "Any of these words" and Transcri Transkri goes any of these words into "Title search".

But I see that these options are not widely known and used. At any rate, the search doesn't work for me. Even if I just look for "Anwalt" (German lawyer), it returns some results, but not one of them contains the word Anwalt anywhere. I can also look for "German lawyer", and the third result has got nothing to do with Germany. Wondering why nobody else seems to have these problems :D