work for free! tag for Google’s Image Labeler!
Posted on | September 5, 2006 | 1 Comment
as of last saturday, Google-fanboys all around the globe may help improving Googles image search results without getting paid 
seriously, Google released a new tool coined Google Image Labeler into public beta (sic!), inviting volunteers to add semantic tags to images indexed by Google Image Search. to make things more interesting, tagging is done simultaneously by pairs of randomly matched users on the web. here’s the lowdown:
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.
besides making the act of tagging fun and even a bit exciting (try it out if you don’t believe me!), the gameplay-approach essentially ensures the validity of tags by double-checks (and who knows better than Google, that the internet isn’t a place to trust people?). currently there is no disclosure on how and when the tagging information will be incorporated into Image Search.
check out this post at ajaxian for more details on the technical side of Image Labeler.
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October 19th, 2006 @ 9:54 pm
[...] Google has added some nice features to their Webmaster Tools recently. site-admins may now query extensive charts of Googlebot’s activity (see screenshot below) and are allowed to control how often the search-engines spiders visit a site (though only in rough levels like “slow/medium/fast”). an interesting new feature is the opt-in for Google’s enhanced image search, which submits the images on a website to Google Image Labeler. if you haven’t used Webmaster Tools before, maybe now is the time to start – its a great way to learn more on the inner workings of Google’s index. [...]