Google Image Labeler: Google is back to school in style

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September 7, 2006 ||

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Google’s zest of being "The Best" will never die. Their innovative techniques and creative ideas for improving the existing technologies will never fade and fail to surprise us.

Its Google Image Labeler’s turn to amuse everyone, at the same time help Google make its image search technology better and accurate. This is not the first time that such (Google Image Labeler) an approach is taken to improve the existing technologies. Though most of the efforts have been made to improve the technology around images there are few others trying to make a difference in other technologies.

Concepts such as Peekaboom were images are involved and Verbosity where language is involved are one of the first "Games" which were conceptualized by Luis von Ahn who calls it Human Computation.

Google Image labeler lets two people participate and play for 1:30 Seconds and guess a tag for the image presented to them. You score 100 points if the tag matches another tag and a new image is presented so you can try to match as many tags as you can in 90 seconds.