Company hopes new tools will make it easier to offer large numbers of tasks on Mechanical Turk, an Internet service that links jobs with people who can do them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is, among other things, a great place to get cheap labor to perform simple tasks that help black hat SEO efforts and general social network spamming. The problem is growing so ...

The online marketplace for digital piece-work, plagued recently by reports of abuse by spammers, has another problem: an interface that is hard for its workers to use. Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk ...