QuickLinks For 2006-09-05

• Google turns to crowdsourcing with image labeler:
  Put four professional picture editors in one locked room, let them keyword four different pictures in fourty minutes and you´ll always get 400 different results. With Google of course, things are different:
  Google hopes to improve the quality of image search results by leveraging the power of its massive audience. The newly launched Google Image Labeler is a "game" that allows players to help label the search giant's enormous image collection with the help of a randomly selected partner. During each 90 second round, players will input tags as they are presented with a series of thumbnail images. When a player inputs the same tag as their partner for a particular image, both are awarded points. [...]
  I'm sure that Google's investors are giddy with joy at the prospect of virtually limitless free labor.
  Ars technica.
  Related:
  • The Rise of Crowdsourcing (Wired/Jeff Howe)
  • Keywords um die Wette (Fotostoria)
  Tags: Image Labeler Google

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