Amazon Mechanical Turk Getting Started Guide

by Amazon Web Services

NOTE – A new version of the Amazon Mechanical Turk Getting Started Guide is available at This is official Amazon Web Services (AWS) documentation for Amazon Mechanical Turk. Amazon Mechanical Turk is a web service that provides an on-demand, scalable, human workforce to complete jobs that humans can do better than computers, such as recognizing objects in photographs. This guide provides a conceptual overview of Amazon Mechanical Turk for developers who want to write scripts or software applications using the Amazon Mechanical Turk SDKs. For information on using a graphical user interface to access Amazon Mechanical Turk functionality, go to the Amazon Mechanical Turk Requester User Interface Guide.

58 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 15, 2012

Reviews

[ANGEL · Rating 3 out of 5]

Searching to Research For Amazon's Mechanical Turk

In looking to make extra money hey at home, I am a very curious person who likes to do research and help so I found Amazon's Mechanical Turk Getting Started Guide. I was very disappointed because I feel it was aimed at people wanting to post jobs, not those wanting to earn money. As far as the set up for those willing to pay someone to vote on ideas, it seemed to me that the HIT system was very confusingly explained. I will continue my research and I feel I will find a faster way to earn money using Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

[Angel]

I feel this book focuses on only those people that want to post HITS, not those looking for work.