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Hahaha... mechanical Turk, I was one of those, the xxx ones were at least entertaining



What kind of tasks were you hired to do on this latter topic?


Tagging scenes Genders in the scene Positions etc...

I'm curious how ML will do that, not how but accuracy would be cool to make (train) the model. Also with thumbnails that capture the viewer's attention.

The other jobs were brute searching sites in hopes to improve SEO.

Transcribing photos of receipts (funny those ads, some poor schmuck being paid 12 cents per 10 min job).

Oh I remember an awkward one it was some social site's user photo uploads, I had to tag images with babies. So weird to see so many 'public' yet seemingly intimate photos. Not nude, just random people's photos.

I did this for a whole week as much as I could do sanely, made $55 not worth it. Washing plates makes more money.


> The other jobs were brute searching sites in hopes to improve SEO.

I'm curious on how this works. Do you basically search for specific keywords and click on specific URLs in order to signal Google that the URL is more relevant?


That sememed to be the basis of it but this was a couple of years ago or more say 2010-2012 something like that man that was a while back wow.

Yeah you had to search some term and find the link. It seemed to work as they would be beyond the first page result usually or at least not #1 but say #4 on page 1.

But it could be biased you know based on your own search history I often check externally with say Tor to see how sites rank from other viewpoints than my own.

Anyway hope that is helpful. You could also just sign up and look around. I think I still have a 99.99% satisfaction rate a lot of jobs you need something close to that to apply but it is shit work though. Some go up to $1.00+ woweee but those take like half an hour to do it's ridiculous.


Thanks for replying! I suspected that people did that but never had confirmation.




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