Amazon.com's MTurk Freelance Jobs Marketplace: What the Hell Is It?

Up until last year, I never knew Amazon.com had its own marketplace where freelancers could find work. Called Mechanical Turk (MTurk), it is Amazon's own custom platform to help businesses outsource their work virtually from anywhere in the world. When I say "work," I mean very small assignments or tasks that don't pay competitive rates; these include:


writing content, 
researching facts,