Will Mechanical Turk Grow Up?

In a long post, Panos Ipeirotis suggests how Amazon should fix Mechanical Turk.   The post ends with two tweets:

Is it worth trying to challenge MTurk? Luis von Ahn, looking at an earlier post of mine, tweeted:

MTurk is TINY (total market size is on the order of $1M/year): Doesn’t seem like it’s worth all the attention.

I will reply with a prior tweet of mine:

Mechanical Turk is for crowdsourcing what AltaVista was for search engines. We now wait to see who will be the Google.

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