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Mechanical Turk

Did you ever read the postings on Amazon's Mechanical Turk?  https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

People advertise for workers who do tiresome repetitive tasks for a a few cents per every task.

I'm sure Amazon would deny it, but doesn't it make you wonder if this is where some of those live human spammers are coming from?

I don't know, I'm just asking....

4 commentsCheryl Johnson • September 26 2009 08:02AM

Comments

That's a great question...where do they come from?

Posted by Jeremy K. Frost (Keller Williams Realty) over 2 years ago

Well, Cheryl,

I think "Thank you for setting the order No.475456" has gone viral and needs no human input...

But, yes.  I think you may be onto something.

Posted by Mike Jaquish 919-880-2769 Cary, NC, Real Estate (KELLER WILLIAMS® Realty) over 2 years ago

Someday we will all be working for, and with, Google and Amazon. A significant portion of my income goes to Amazon already, since I do most of my shopping through them, even some groceries. And I keep discovering more Google apps to help me run my business.

Thanks, Cheryl! An interesting post, as usual!

Cheers,

Robin

Posted by Robin Rogers, Silverbridge Realty, San Antonio, Texas over 2 years ago

Cheryl, haha, yes I bet you are right.  Also I am sure some are coming from odesk.com as well.

Posted by Rebecca Levinson, Real Estate Marketing Consultant (Real Skillz-Clear Marketing for Your Real Estate Vision) over 2 years ago

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