Crowdsourcing is basically the act of polling a crowd of people on the internet in search of an answer. Crowsourcing can also be used to find help on any given subject or problem. On any given day you can find many people using social networks such as twitter, myspace, or facebook to crowdsource.

Crowdsourcing works similar to the audience lifeline found the hit television show Who wants to be a millionaire. When an audience lifeline was used by a contestant on the show to answer a hard question, the contestant could poll the audience for the correct answer. The audience would type in what they thought was the correct answer and after 30 seconds or so, the results would be displayed by percentage. The highest percentage generally was the answer the audience was suggesting and the audience was always right. This is the power of crowdsourcing.