Is Mechanical Turk good for getting recommendations?
byoung2: It depends...If you are just looking for top 10 lists, it should be fine.  If you want detailed reports like WikiTravel (http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page), you'll have a harder time finding people who can write well for a low price.Mechanical Turk is like any other system of inputs and outputs: what you get out of it depends on what you put in.  From my experience, if you give very detailed instructions and examples of what you want, and you pay a decent reward, you'll get good results.  If you want people to write 500 word articles for $0.05, you'll get crap.