Google Image Labeler

edited September 2008 in Games
Help Google improve the power of its image search by playing a fun word association game! The system pairs you up with a random partner, throws images at you, and asks you to label them. The first label that you and your partner both guess (it doesn't show you what your partner is submitting for labels) is assigned a point value based on complexity, so the more specific your response, the better you score. Fun times!

Google Image Labeler

A not-so-fun part: most of my partners have been dumbasses that go for the quick scoring, and don't bother with more complex strings of phrases. It seems to me that you can earn a lot more points getting a handful of really good match ups. Alas, dumbasses do not feel similarly. Too bad we can't jump into the game as non-anonymous partners, but I suppose the potential for cheating and skewing image search results is too great. Give it a try!

Comments

  • edited September 2008
    Ooh, addicting.

    I could do this for quite a while.
  • edited September 2008
    It's pretty good, but the quality of some of the images is awful. I couldn't tell what something was in the last game because of all the jpg artifacts.

    There should be a way to set your bandwidth so you can get original or less-resized images.