What is Amazon’s Mechanical Turk?

Posted on August 23rd, 2007 by Richard Catto 1,658 views

Did you know that Amazon runs an interesting little web site that allows ordinary everyday Internet users to make a few bucks by doing various tasks that people do better than computers?

You earn into your Amazon.com account and you can use your credit to purchase stuff on Amazon.com or have it paid out to you.

It’s not a lot that you can earn (currently) but some of the tasks that you can get paid to do are fun.

Here’s where you go:
Amazon Mechanical Turk

Here is an interesting Salon magazine article covering this web site in more depth:
I make $1.45 a week and I love it!

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