Making Money with Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechanical Turk, also sometimes referred to as "Mturk", is a crowdsourcing marketplace online that allows humans to perform tasks that computers are unable to perform yet. A task is also referred to as a "hit" and these "hits" are basic questions that need answers. When people sign up with Amazon Mechanical Turk, they are paid for these tasks that are performed. There are many different kinds of tasks that require human intelligence to perform. Some of the different kinds of tasks Amazon Mechanical Turk has to offer are transcribing audio files, identifying certain objects in videos and pictures, researching data details, and performing date de-duplication.
A person must be registered with Amazon Mechanical Turk in order to perform the tasks and get compensation for them. Certain...