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Re:Ask HN: what do you know about virtual assistants? by Charuru on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @10:11PM (#1593585)
For a task like:

>use Google and Twitter to find people who have complained about Home Owner Association (aka HOA) fees in the past 2 weeks. Please include the source URL and the person's email or Twitter handle

I have had good experiences with Amazon Mechanical Turk. Maybe you'll find that helpful too.

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Re:Ask HN: what do you know about virtual assistants? by derwiki on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @12:47AM (#1593855)
Watch out for bots on Mechanical Turk -- I'd add some sort of qualification test and a good way to reject bad work from people. We were using it to process 1000s of HITs a day, and the quality got to be so bad that we had to turn it off.

Charuru, could you speak to your positive experiences? (maybe types of tasks / HIT volume)

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