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Amazon Launches Mechanical Turk Beta

November 10, 2005

Thanks for checking out Amazon Mechanical Turk. We’re currently experiencing extremely heavy traffic to this beta site, mturk.amazon.com.   To read about Amazon Mechanical Turk and its web services APIs, go to www.amazon.com/webservices (where page load times are fast).   Also, send a blank email to aws@amazon.com if you want us to email you when page load times recover at mturk.amazon.com.  

– Amazon Mechanical Turk Team  

Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it. Learn more.

Choose from thousands of tasks, control when you work, and decide how much you earn.

If you are a software developer and would like to learn more about using Amazon Mechanical Turk APIs, click here.

Wow, a way for me to get extra money for Christmas and maybe have enough left to buy myself an Xbox 360. One thought though, am I going to be competing with Chinese Labor Prices? If I am, no thanks, I’d rather grind in a MMO for that amount of money.