A subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides a Web services system that uses people to perform tasks better handled by humans than computers. Mechanical Turk is a "crowdsourcing" system, in which ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk, or MTurk for short ... ranging from simple ones like data entry, surveys, and image tagging to more ...

A personality quiz on Amazon's Mechanical Turk received multiple complaints in ... I became the “micro-entrepreneur” touted by companies like TaskRabbit, Postmates, and Airbnb.