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    well the key to these hits is you don't just rely on the auto-populated search that is given in the HIT. I'm assuming most people just click the link to bring up google search results, they don't see the site anywhere, so they click NA. If you don't see the site on the default search, shorten the keyword string that you're searching for. There have been quite a few of these where I would have clicked NA based on the search terms I was given, but tried another search without the city/state listed and was able to find the site. Then to make sure it's correct, I find the contact info on that page to make sure it's the right company from the correct city. Another useful tip if not address is given, but a contact phone number is given, is to google the phone number's area code to make sure it's from the location you are looking for.

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    Nowadays directory lists like yelp etc are on top and the company's offical website is listed only on the 3rd or 4th page. Damn you directory websites.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chaos View Post
    I do find it funny though that EVERYONE always says "I do good work, etc, etc". I've never once seen somebody say that they do poor quality work... Maybe sometimes we're not very good at accurately judging ourselves.
    The problem is that without feedback from requesters that consists of more than the binary value of an approval or a rejection and maybe a canned answer, we have no way of actually judging the quality of our work.

    I think I'm doing pretty well and have a high percentage of approved HITs, but it could just be that that my stuff is being auto-approved most of the time and I'm actually quite terrible at it. So I'll happily chug along, generating volumes of poor quality work because no one on the other end gives me adequate feedback.

    Since the requesters repeatedly demonstrate that the work they give us is not really very important to them by virtue of the niggardly rewards they offer for doing it, we can't seriously expect them to invest much time in helping us do it correctly.

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    HI All.
    I have also got the same message.I dont know why.I tried contacting the requester using the mturk form.But there was no response.Please help me too.
    see the message i got.

    Oops... It seems that our records suggest you are not allowed to work on this HIT. Please choose the other available campaign and Happy Turking! You can find our main campaign at mturk.com (click to open)
    can we contact him by some other mode.I have sent him around 3 mails regarding this issue.But he never replied.
    Help me friends.

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    I got the same message and I also always do good work- Just another one of those weird things I guess! I always ensure my work is 100%. Must be just like crowdflower etc. Some businesses had no company website.

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    This task was simply opening 2 search pages to find if a business has an official webpage. Official company page only. Easy as pie. But I got the same message. Maybe he just limits sometimes. Who knows! I know my work was good. Just one of those things! Moving on from Dodds,lol

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