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Amazon Mechanical Turk
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Amazon Mechanical Turk

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What is Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a marketplace for work that requires human intelligence. The Mechanical Turk web service enables companies to programmatically access this marketplace and a diverse, on-demand workforce. Developers can leverage this service to build human intelligence directly into their applications.

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Key Features

Tag objects found in an image for easier searching / advertising targetingSelect from a set of images the best picture to represent a productAudit user-uploaded images for inappropriate contentClassify objects found in satellite imageryDe-duplication of yellow pages directory listingsIdentification of duplicate products in an online product catalogVerify restaurant details such as phone number or hours of operationAllowing people to ask questions from a computer or mobile device about any topic and have workers return results to those questionsFilling out survey data on a variety of topicsWriting reviews, descriptions and blog entries for websitesFinding specific fields or data elements in large legal and government documentsPodcast editing and transcriptionHuman powered translation servicesRating the accuracy of results for a search engine

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Amazon Mechanical Turk Alternatives & Comparisons

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CrowdFlower

CrowdFlower

CrowdFlower is the world's leading crowdsourcing service, with over 800 million tasks submitted by over four million contributors. We specialize in microtasking: distributing small, discrete tasks to many online contributors, assembly-line fashion - for instance, using people to check hundreds of thousands of photos every day for obscene content.

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