Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourced marketplace that allows people (turkers) to complete small tasks that computers cannot. These turkers represent the Wild West of the crowdsourcing workforce.

“A man is less responsible for rape if he is affected by drugs or alcohol.” I quickly clicked my mouse over to the right button, “Strongly Disagree.” My eyes burned. I had answered this question three ...

If you are looking for legitimate part-time employment, Amazon Mechanical Turk can certainly be that, but it will take work to learn how to turk efficiently. To each her own, but completing hundreds ...

Performing human tasks interspersed within an automated system. See Mechanical Turk. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

Update May 2009: If you are addicted to Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, why not make some cash from your taste for trivia? There are many sites in addition to Amazon's Mechanical Turk where you can vie ...

It's the end of the month, and you're furiously uploading receipts to submit to your employer for reimbursement. It's been a busy few weeks — too many Lyft trips to count — so you have a lot to ...

Turking women smiling in protestTweet: I'm a Turkish girl, 26 years old, and I can't do anything but Smile!!

Inside the weird, wild, low-wage world of Mechanical Turk. The computer showed a photo of what looked like a school board meeting. My job was to rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 for 23 different qualities ...

Amidst selling unicorn meat and uranium ore, Amazon found time to start a crowdsourcing service called Mechanical Turk. The platform enables workers (“turkers”) to complete small tasks that computers ...