Amazon's Mechanical Turk let users divide simple tasks into any number of small subtasks that take only a few seconds to do, and which pay pennies — but dedicated piecemeal workers would perform ...

Then she started searching the internet for work that she could do online. Joan can’t remember how she first found out about Amazon Mechanical Turk, but she suspects that she learned about it on ...

Mechanical Turk employs over 500,000 people worldwide, or nearly five times as many workers as Amazon's usual rank and file; it wouldn't take many of them to flood Bezos' inbox. With that said ...

Amazon's Mechanical Turk let users divide simple tasks into any number of small subtasks that take only a few seconds to do, and which pay pennies — but dedicated piecemeal workers would perform ...