Amazon on Wednesday rolled out new features to its Mechanical Turk web service designed to expand its appeal to a broader set of businesses. Mechanical Turk is a work marketplace that can be used to ...

Company hopes new tools will make it easier to offer large numbers of tasks on Mechanical Turk, an Internet service that links jobs with people who can do them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a website that allows companies to post jobs for online workers. These workers perform tasks by computer at home and receive a payment for completing each task. The payment ...

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk allows users to sign up for quick, low paying, online-based jobs like writing with photo captions, allowing other large Web companies including Twitter to crowdsouce the labor ...

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Last week I described my experiences using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service to transcribe audio recordings of oral histories I’ve collected. As I explained in that post, it appears that I ended up ...

Amazon's Mechanical Turk service is all about using humans to perform computer-like tasks, such as identifying objects and transcribing videos. However, those workers are tired of being treated like ...

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Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk for short), an online marketplace for digital piece-work, is not somewhere you’re going to get rich any time soon. Most of its tasks are miniscule, and so are the ...

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