I tried this HIT, the 60 seconds has been raised to 3 minutes but I still could not get it done in that time. I got to 2.5 minutes and noticed I still needed the phone number and email address and returned it. I'm a pretty fast typer and decent at searching but it just did not seem possible to do this in under a minute as you said others have. I am wondering if anyone else tried and had any luck?
I don't see any up, but even if he thinks it should only take a minute - there's no harm in giving a 12-30 minute timer on them. At least then he'd be able to gauge how long it actually takes people to do them and adjust the rate accordingly. People aren't out to take longer just to get paid more later (if adjusted). Workers want to do the work and make the money "now". or maybe there's a reason requesters give those ridiculously short timers for hits. one allergy-season fit of sneezes and there's an abandoned hit.
I agree. Most requesters who've been around for a while learn if a task takes 5 minutes they set it for 20 minutes or 30 just to have a fail safe. I don't touch tasks that are under 10 minutes unless I know for a fact I can do it. Doing searches needs at least 15 minutes just so people feel at ease. I skimmed right past these because the timer was at 3 minutes... no way! What if I can't find something? I think the people this requester said did them in under 60 seconds is because they accepted the hit after they searched for the info... otherwise its impossible. Hopefully this requester will up the timer quite a bit...then they'll see some results.
I agree with the above posters. 60 seconds is impossible as a time frame for any kind of hit. If you seriously increase the time alloted - to 15 minutes or even an hour - people may feel more inclined to try the hits. I was not able to look at an example of the depth of research necessary, so cannot comment further on the actual work involved. However, it might be helpful to put yourself in the place of the turker and calculate a fair hourly wage, divided by a realistic estimate of the time necessary to do the quality work you want done...
The HIT timer is now at 5 minutes so I tried one. I still hadn't even started on the email when the time expired. I had to get the name and position from the company website, then search for the phone and address on Google. I may have taken a sip of water and glanced at my TV. 5 minutes gone. So if they take 5 minutes for 10c, no point in doing them. I can make twice that in half the time - 4 times higher pay rate.