Which Google Answers-type services are currently recruiting researchers?

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 01 Feb 2006 13:25 PST

Are you aware of the fact that Google Answers Researchers are not
Google employees, but independent contractors (freelancers) and this
is also the condition in similar services?

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Clarification of Question by onshi_san-ga on 01 Feb 2006 13:45 PST

Yes, I presumed that to be the case.

Dear Onshi, 

Here are several suich services that hire. I cannot vouch for how much
traffic they receive:

AskEarth
<http://askearth.com/go/home> 

Keen
<http://www.keen.com/give/advice.asp> 

Bumper Brain
<http://www.bumperbrain.com/terms.cfm?CFID=14586884&CFTOKEN=25608920&Apply=Y> 

Kasamba
<http://www.kasamba.com/registration/reg.asp> 

You can see a list of further services, and check the openings for yourself, at: 
: Where can I pay to have questions researched/answered on the Internet? 
<http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=465378> 

I hope this answers your question. Please contact me if you need any
clarification on this answer before you rate it.

You might want to take a look at Amazon's "Mechanical Turk":

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

A prospective researcher asking "Who is hiring researchers?" is sort
of like a psychic asking, "Penny for your thoughts?", is it not?

hee hee

tutuzdad - Yes, that's part of the reason I decided to ask it.

onshi_san,

If you are seriously interested in working as an online researcher,
you might want to consider how much labor you'd be likely to expend in
order to earn $1.50 (the Google Answers Researcher's share of your
current fee). You will almost certainly be more likely to get a good,
well-researched answer if you raise your price.