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Ask HN: Mechanical Turk - equivalent outside USA?

10 points by tow21 ↗ HN
I've got a bunch of tasks that I think would be ideal for mechanical-turk-ing. (lots of data-cleanup drudgery - manually reconciling different spellings/capitalizations/abbreviations/etc of entity names)

But, I'm UK based, and Mechanical Turk is US only. What do non-US people use for farming out this sort of job?

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PG-13
Mechanical Turk is pretty crappy, so I don't think you're really missing out.
jongos
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streety
That's a nice find. Looks like the concept is similar to cloudkick but for human workers.

They also list their "worker channels" should you want to go straight to the source.

iamelgringo
I had a project where I had to verify several thousand addresses that I had scraped. I ended up outsourcing it to eLance. I found a company in India via eLance that had 25 people in front of computers with an internet connection, and they chewed away at the list. It took them a month or two but they verified 6200 addresses by hand for me for $700.
zen53
Try SmartSheet - Based on Mechanical Turk.