My latest obsession

benol · Post by **benol** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 9:40 pm

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

Try it. It's like crack. Try to guess what other people would tag the picture as. It's a game, and you're helping Google out to make their image search more accurate.

theelk · Post by **theelk** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:33 pm

It is pretty addictive. I got 640 cumulative points so far.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:49 pm

I've tried it a few times, not exactly something I'd brag about doing. I only "play" it when I'm uber bored, no one is on messenger, and games just don't seem fun. Doesn't help that it seems like I'm always paired with someone that has an IQ of less than 12. There was a picture of an airport fire engine (looks like a military vehicle, painted yellowish-green) that I saw several times, never did my partner type the same thing as me, and I tried every variation of "fire truck" I could type within the time.

Not worth it unless you have no friends or anything else to do, in my opinion.

benol · Post by **benol** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:59 pm

theelk wrote:It is pretty addictive. I got 640 cumulative points so far.

As of right now, I have 21140.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 11:43 am

Can points do something like win you prizes?

Website · Post by **Life of Brian** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:13 pm

I'm certain you can win a title of some sort...

I'll let you decide what you deserve

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:48 pm

Wow this is brilliant just mucking it up for people by typing"I just wasted 2 minutes of your life" and then randomly typing letters.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:49 pm

Yay! I'm helping google! And participating in a popular science article!

But some of these people are idiots. One guy passed on a picture that was a bunch of different Garfield poses.

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:23 pm

I got a guy who passed on a picture of a dog. No off-limits words or anything. Just a picture of a DOG.

I just wrote "you idiot" and hit "pass" to move on.

vskid · Post by **vskid** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:00 pm

bicostp wrote:I got a guy who passed on a picture of a dog. No off-limits words or anything. Just a picture of a DOG.

I just wrote "you idiot" and hit "pass" to move on.

That is the main reason I don't do it anymore, I'm not going to waste my time just so that stupid people can make me mad. Now if I could choose a partner, maybe one of you guys, then I'd do it.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:14 pm

I figure these are all unnamed pictures google can't do anything with until they're labeled with generic names. My question: Is there a filter on this game? I mean, they're probably all the untitled.jpg's from the database. Anyone seen any porn or violent death pictures or anything?

It is a rather amusing game. It beats other online mildly-amusing games, because you know it's actually doing something.

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:13 pm

Kurt_ wrote:I figure these are all unnamed pictures google can't do anything with until they're labeled with generic names. My question: Is there a filter on this game? I mean, they're probably all the untitled.jpg's from the database. Anyone seen any porn or violent death pictures or anything?

It is a rather amusing game. It beats other online mildly-amusing games, because you know it's actually doing something.

I've seen some African guy with a gnarly knee wound and a chick in a thong but that's it.

benol · Post by **benol** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:24 pm

Kurt_ wrote:Anyone seen any porn or violent death pictures or anything?

Yes. And plenty of guns.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:37 pm

Way to be sarcastic.

Can I avoid seeing mature content?

While there's no guarantee, it's unlikely that you'll see mature content because all images are filtered under image search's Strict Safe Search setting. If you do see any mature content, you can report it here.

benol · Post by **benol** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:48 pm

Kurt_ wrote:Way to be sarcastic.

Can I avoid seeing mature content?

While there's no guarantee, it's unlikely that you'll see mature content because all images are filtered under image search's Strict Safe Search setting. If you do see any mature content, you can report it here.

I actually wasn't. There was a picture that could be called hentai, but it was leaning more towards the ecchi side.

EDIT:

This picture. Every combination of lady, woman, flower, white, ect.

They passed. Didn't even try.