mturk.com

Description: Outsource your dirty work. Slavery 0.2, or a new global labour market?

Newest Review: ... In the end it is probably a good site to join if you are reading this in the US, but a distinctly average one if you aren't. For anyone in the UK I would recommend it only to those who really like surveys and earning "pocket money" online, and to students (who would probably have the time to invest in this site and should be more interested than most in earning free ... more

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mturk.com: Should You Work For The Turk? (2344 words)
by - written on 14/07/09 (Very useful, 241 readings)
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Amazon.com is now more than just a place to buy cheap books from, it seems. One of a suite of extra web services now offered by the internet giant, the Amazon Mechanical Turk was first launched in 2005 as a crowdsourcing marketplace - or to put it more bluntly, a place for people to post jobs they wanted doing, and for other people to do them in return for payment, a bit like a virtual job centre. In case you are wondering where the slightly unusual name of this service comes from, the Mechanical Turk is named after a famous 18th century hoax. The original Mechanical Turk was a chess-playing machine made up of a wooden cabinet at which an automaton dressed in Turkish ... Read the complete review

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