Google Indexing Q

rudig

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I looked at freelancer website the past week and a bit and found some interesting things.

Some of the developers requested a 20% upfront payment for a project they claimed to have done before.
This made me suspicious and I researched them:

I googled the developer's nick.

I found a reference to the developer's nick when I googled:

https://www.google.co.za/search?q=sharpinnovator+elance&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-ZA:official&client=firefox-a

Going through some of the hits I found referenced on the google search page to "sharpinnovator" being awarded a project.
When clicking on one of the elance hits(the same happened for all of the elance projects sharpinnovator was awarded)

https://www.elance.com/j/webservice-mobile-apps/35264315/

I found that Google had indexed the winner of the bids in a peculiar fashion.
Clicking on the elance links all show a "Kumar S." as the person who won the bids.

The profile is closed and one can't view more details, but the negative review rating and profile pic remained.

The "Kumar S." profile also has the same profile picture as the official sharpinnovator on

http://www.guru.com/freelancers/Software-Developer-Smart-Phone-Mobile-Applications-Telephony-Consultant-Testing-QA/India/Dindigul/1541054

The developer I've been speaking to's name is also Kumar S., same country, same skills as the deleted eLance profile, but he vehemently denies any connection.

Now the question is: Why would Google index the project winner "Kumar S." as "sharpinnovator" if all final URLs point to "Kumar S." winning the project?

Anyone know?
 
No worries if no one made sense of that.
I think that the profile name was changed at some point but Google kept on indexing on the original name.
Found a local guy who might be able to do the work for me, so just happy I didn't lose a lot of money to a very possibly bad transaction.
 
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