Google Image Labeler
This post was published 3 years 2 months 22 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.In an effort to improve the results returned for Google Image searches, Google recently unveiled a user-driven service known as the Google Image Labeler.
You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.
Sounds kind of like some sort of contorted game of Pictionary. It might be something to do to kill kill time.
Google is GENIUS!
do you realize the algorythms and processing power it would take for machines to analyze images… pfft… now Google has made a computer heavy processing situation another walk in the park.
Turn their database into an image match game, store peoples results to an image, then assosciate that image with their most common answers… image searching now becomes more streamlined and efficient because we are basically turned into little labeling grunts…. a job you couldn’t pay people to do, google is not getting people to do for free by tallying points and pole positions…. man, you gotta love their ingenuity!