[OSM-talk] Google Hiring 300 Temps to Fix Map Errors

[Steve Bennett]

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 1:50 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/05/google_hiring_300_temp_workers_in_kirkland_to_pinpoint_bugs_in_google_maps.html
> Anyone care to come up with a press release that says something like
> "OpenStreetMap volunteers, numbering in the 10s of thousands, fixing a free
> map for free."

I once had a job like that, working on the main search engine. Google
set up the infrastructure, then outsourced the actual hiring and
paying through a temp agency. You sit at home, rating search results
one at a time, for like $30 an hour. Trouble was, I found I could
never do more than about 2 hours a day without going out of my mind.

Steve