What is Amazon's Mechanical Turk?
The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables individuals or businesses (known as Requesters) to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do. It is one of the sites of Amazon Web Services. The Requesters are able to post tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a store-front, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs.
How to Earn Money with Amazon's Mechanical Turk?
When a Requester approves a task, Amazon Mechanical Turk automatically deposits money into the Amazon.com account of the individual who completed the task. The account holder can choose to have this money transferred to their U.S. personal bank account or to their Amazon.com account where they can use it to pay for purchases.
What Kind of Work is Available?
Some of the tasks currently in the marketplace benefit Amazon’s search subsidiary A9.com. Amazon Mechanical Turk is being used to increase the quality of its A9’s BlockView pictures that show users street-level pictures of businesses. These HITs ask people to select from several photographs the one that best presents the front of a business. Thousands of these HITs are still listed on the Amazon Mechanical Turk web site.
Some of the work on offer is respectable enough, like taking part in surveys for academic research or correcting someone's English. A lot of it is related to making material more visible on the internet by tagging and categorizing it. So Mechanical Turk is big on porn: There's money to be made, though not much, by making adult images, whatever their origin, even easier to find than they are already. Amazon doesn't appear to have a problem with facilitating this.
How can make money with this?
Currently, to submit work to the Amazon Mechanical Turk web site, Requesters need a basic understanding of how to use APIs or need to hire a software developer who does. However, we anticipate that software developers will build applications that help people and businesses without technical skills to use the Amazon Mechanical Turk web service. This has been happening for more than three years with developers creating and selling applications that help non-technical Amazon Associates and Amazon Marketplace Sellers use Amazon Web Services to improve their businesses.
The types of HITs vary dramatically, as does the payment for each one. There are HITs for categorizing, text or audio transcription, ranking web searches, writing small articles, academic research surveys and much more. Requesters (the people providing HITs), can choose to require qualifications for their work as well, which could necessitate a test, or certain demographic or statistical measures to be met. One thing that is important is AMT tracks the percentage of your completed HITs that have been rejected (yes work can be rejected, more on that later). That percentage needs to be high to qualify for the more lucrative work, and it is easy to mess it up early when you have only completed a small number of HITs, so be very careful of this.
Things That Suck with Amazon's Mechanical Turk:
- No High Paying Tasks.
- Filled with Scams, so be careful when choosing a turk.
- Very Hard to find new jobs that link with your specialization.
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