I’ve recently been made aware of Google’s Image Labeler. It’s such a simple and brilliant concept. They basically match up two random users and place them in a game environment to label images. When the two random users label the image with the same term it’s considered a match and another image is shown.

Google is basically getting people to tag their images for free. I’m sure they tried an elaborate algorithm to try and understand objects in an image to no avail so the next best thing get the users to do it! My guess is that there is a magical threshold where if N number of people believe this image to be ‘man’ then it is the preferred term. There is also opportunity to take all the other words that weren’t matches and see how they faired against the aggregated terms of every other user that has labeled the image.

Ahhh Google so smart…

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