Google wants free labour from "image" searchers...

Started by Darren Dirt, April 05, 2007, 10:16:55 AM

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Darren Dirt

April 05, 2007, 10:16:55 AM Last Edit: April 05, 2007, 10:22:15 AM by Darren Dirt
...and I hope they get it!

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

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Welcome to Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results.

How does it work?
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.


For example, this image can be described by the labels: bird, sky, soaring, or frigate bird.


What is required to participate?
Just an interest in helping Google improve the relevance of image search results for users like yourself. Although you do not have to log in to your Google account to help, logging in will allow you to keep track of your points. You can also choose to provide a nickname, or you can remain anonymous.



Heck, it even sounds FUN -- like an interactive 2-player web gameshow where you both win. :o


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update: I tried it, apparently my random "partner" was drunk or non-English or something -- 2 images, one of a small jet plane the other of a bunch of bicycles in front of a river, looked like European old city of some kind, a bit gloomy maybe sometime in the fall. And yet, after 90 seconds (about 45 on each) and a half-dozen labels by my partner...
You and a guest failed to match on any images.
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Darren Dirt

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April 05, 2007, 10:39:12 AM
update #2:
oops, you gotta type your label then hit/click ENTER. For each label.

I got 300 pts, then 400pts... And I contributed to the accuracy of the Internets. YAY!
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Mr. Analog

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April 05, 2007, 11:29:06 AM
It's folks like you that'll kill accidental porn.
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Darren Dirt

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April 05, 2007, 03:37:32 PM
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April 05, 2007, 06:43:39 PM
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