Thursday, August 9, 2007

Amazon Mechanical Turk :: Earn Money Online

I opened my mail box today and saw a mail with the subject "Earn Money Online".All through these years; I have been on internet and have received many forwards and spam’s coaxing me to subscribe to some website where you can earn extra money online. I have subscribed to few of them and found them utter waste of time and effort. These website usually send you email which you have to read or some links on which you have to click and watch the page that opens up. Some websites want you to watch the advertisement and then click on it. While other would send you the survey forms which you have to fill and submit. So how much do you earn from these "Earn online" websites, they only give you $.001 (or lesser) for doing these tasks and their payment amount is at least $100. So one day I calculated and found out that if I continue to click on the links, keep watching the ads, I would be able to get $100 in around 3-4 years, which was highly disappointing.



Few days before, I came across the website "Amazon Mechanical Turk", which was also one of the earn online website. I found to be very useful and the one which would really pay up. On this website people post the jobs which are better done by humans and they put a price to it. You can choose to do the job and once your work gets approved you get paid for it. So you just have to complete simple tasks that you can do better than computers and, get paid for it. You can choose from thousands of tasks like voice transcripts, writing an article, and can control when you work, and decide how much you earn.

I have earned $1.71.Visit Amazon Mechanical Turk. For knowing what is Mechanical Turk? Click here