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Earn Money by answering simple questions

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just4geeks

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AMAZON MECHANICAL TURK
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Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it. Choose from thousands of tasks, control when you work, and decide how much you earn.
 
So I can sit here and click like 1 million times to make 3 cents each time? Are you garenteed to get the money?
 
seems like it would just be quicker for someone to do themselves instead of all these extra layers.
 
You'd have to work at a rate of 6 per minute to earn a shade over $10/hr.

And that's assuming they get approved.

From the looks of it, it's a cheap ploy to get people to do amazon's dirty work.

They take drive by photographs of addresses and you choose the one that best represents a store at that address.

They don't even pay attention to what they are photographing. I had one that was literally just a bunch of shrubs.
 
So, every page I make a choice on, I get 3 cents for? And, if I can do 1 page every 20 seconds, that's 9 cents a minute....
WOW, that's like $5.40 an hour! I'll be rich!

But, wtf? I was looking at some of the images... Did some robot run around and post these images online? If they paid $1 an hour more to the person uploading the images, perhaps they could afford someone who isn't a moron and could figure out these answers on their own?

Or, is this some weird psych experiment? Marketing study?

 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
So, every page I make a choice on, I get 3 cents for? And, if I can do 1 page every 20 seconds, that's 9 cents a minute....
WOW, that's like $5.40 an hour! I'll be rich!

But, wtf? I was looking at some of the images... Did some robot run around and post these images online? If they paid $1 an hour more to the person uploading the images, perhaps they could afford someone who isn't a moron and could figure out these answers on their own?

Or, is this some weird psych experiment? Marketing study?
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I'm assuming they have something big planned where each store in some directory has an image... I could see google doing something like this, but I don't see how Amazon thinks this is worthwhile.


 
Originally posted by: Injury
Originally posted by: DrPizza
So, every page I make a choice on, I get 3 cents for? And, if I can do 1 page every 20 seconds, that's 9 cents a minute....
WOW, that's like $5.40 an hour! I'll be rich!

But, wtf? I was looking at some of the images... Did some robot run around and post these images online? If they paid $1 an hour more to the person uploading the images, perhaps they could afford someone who isn't a moron and could figure out these answers on their own?

Or, is this some weird psych experiment? Marketing study?
Click to expand...


I'm assuming they have something big planned where each store in some directory has an image... I could see google doing something like this, but I don't see how Amazon thinks this is worthwhile.
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Well, looks liek they drove around taking constant pictures (someone else mentioned it too), and need us to match it with the actual business. They say in the help section these in particular are for Amazon's search subsidiary (a9.com), but I am sure it's more of a proof of concept for potential customers. Advertisers could use something like this to see which are the best photos to use in ads, or any number of tasks similar to the ones they have ppl doing now. I did 12, a whopping 36 cents if they are approved. Enough for me.
 
Originally posted by: EDiT
Originally posted by: Injury
Originally posted by: DrPizza
So, every page I make a choice on, I get 3 cents for? And, if I can do 1 page every 20 seconds, that's 9 cents a minute....
WOW, that's like $5.40 an hour! I'll be rich!

But, wtf? I was looking at some of the images... Did some robot run around and post these images online? If they paid $1 an hour more to the person uploading the images, perhaps they could afford someone who isn't a moron and could figure out these answers on their own?

Or, is this some weird psych experiment? Marketing study?
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They went to 12 major cities I believe and took millions of pictures with a camera on top of vans they drove through.


I'm assuming they have something big planned where each store in some directory has an image... I could see google doing something like this, but I don't see how Amazon thinks this is worthwhile.
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Well, looks liek they drove around taking constant pictures (someone else mentioned it too), and need us to match it with the actual business. They say in the help section these in particular are for Amazon's search subsidiary (a9.com), but I am sure it's more of a proof of concept for potential customers. Advertisers could use something like this to see which are the best photos to use in ads, or any number of tasks similar to the ones they have ppl doing now. I did 12, a whopping 36 cents if they are approved. Enough for me.
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Something tells me that whichever image gets the most votes is the one that's going to get selected as the right answer, and get you paid. So since there appear to be 7ish images per address, and the images are in consecutive order, if you set up a macro on your computer to choose the 3rd or 4th one, then move onto the next page, chances are you'd hit a decent amount of correct ones, and be able to make some cash.

Especially if you set up 3 or 4 computers to do it for you on the same account.

I know what I'll be doing tonight 😉

Anybody have a chance to check out the API yet? depending on what that offers it could supply even more cash to somebody willing to churn up a quick .NET app... 🙂
 
Nevermind about the API thing, looks like it's more for people wanting to upload images/use the service, not choose the images 😛
 
Originally posted by: kyzen
Something tells me that whichever image gets the most votes is the one that's going to get selected as the right answer, and get you paid. So since there appear to be 7ish images per address, and the images are in consecutive order, if you set up a macro on your computer to choose the 3rd or 4th one, then move onto the next page, chances are you'd hit a decent amount of correct ones, and be able to make some cash.

Especially if you set up 3 or 4 computers to do it for you on the same account.

I know what I'll be doing tonight 😉

Anybody have a chance to check out the API yet? depending on what that offers it could supply even more cash to somebody willing to churn up a quick .NET app... 🙂
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Brilliant idea 🙂
*sigh* if only I had broadband available here.
 
I'm up to about $2. ATOT makes me no money. It's kind of fun.

I think if you give to many bad answers you will be blacklisted pretty quick. More than half are "None of the above" anyways. But if you feel like going to the trouble to hack it....
 
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