Nugget 4: Free labor (& a bit of a milestone)
First off I was glad to see CMU and their technological achievements mentioned numerous times in this article. I knew that they were leaders in technology, but I did not know how pervasive they really were. I must say that I am impressed.This article was of course referring to net surfers and I probably should have guessed that from the onset, but I didn't. None the less I stumbled across this article about Google using a game formate (developed at CMU) to encourage users to help them label and caption the billions of pictures in their search index. I personally think this is quite a novel idea. It both entertains the "gamer" and helps Google label some of its pictures. I am aware that this in barely going to make a dent in labeling Googles picture search index, but every little bit helps. Also, I agree that the system of having "gamers" label the pictures could be troublesome, but the pictures and the participants are picked at random and both party's labeling have to agree on the label so I think it is fairly accurate. I personally am okay with having images that I may search in this way!
posted by julie @ 11:35 PM
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Hey very cool...you know what, now that you mention that, I am thinking of the blog Aaron made this week on google and how he doesn't understand how they got so rich when other search engines incepted at the same time were not since all use advertising. Maybe google gets more hits and therefore makes more money because they are more user friendly. Developing things like this picture index makes it easier for people to get what they want rather than surfing for hours and getting things related to what you are looking for instead of exactly what you are looking for.
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