Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 4, 2005 @01:51AM from the no-one-in-the-box dept.

rscoggin writes "Amazon.com has a new program that wants you to 'Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it.' (example: 'Is there a pizza parlour in this photograph?'). For each task you complete you get a small payment, usually ranging from a few cents to a little under a dollar. It's named the Amazon Mechanical Turk after a famous hoax from the 19th century. Kill time and get paid in tiny increments to boot!" Similar to Google Answers, there seems to be a reliability ratings system and some incentives.

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^bump^ by TubeSteak · 2005-11-04 03:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

okay, you win mister coward.

I accidentally made a first post
then purposely bragged about it.

and you know what, I do feel like a champ.
I hope you spend the rest of your days on dial-up
trying to make money of this Amazon mturk thing.

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