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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) 10 months 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 Cary, NC, Real Estate (KELLER WILLIAMS® Realty) 10 months 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 10 months 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) 10 months ago

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