Comments on: Play With Images Using Google Image Labeler

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:02:30 +0000

I enjoy Google Image Labeler, but it can be very frustrating too. It’s a mental challenge to find as many labels for a picture as you can think of, but since most players are driven by the desire to make points, they end up just entering colors if they aren’t matching their anonymous partner after a few guesses; this gives them more points, but doesn’t help in the labeling process at all (who is ever going to look up “red” to find something??). It’s also a drag when a player (and we are all anonymous, even with the cute little names we give ourselves) decides to just let the other guy go on listing his heart out, while he just keeps hitting “pass” instead of really playing. Or worse yet are the players (again, anonymous) who just want to enter obscene or racist terms instead of labels — fun for them, I suppose, in their tiny minds. I’d like to see them all banned from playing, for the sake of the serious players. The images could be sharper and larger, too; and I’d appreciate not seeing any really gross ones (and there have been many). A question: How do those top point guys make over 2000 a round?!? I’ve gotten up to 1800, but I’ve seen scores of up to 5000! HOW is that done??

By: Beth Budwig

Beth Budwig — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:44:11 +0000

It’s a good idea in principle - in practice, this game is horrible. The synchronicity of it means that if you get a partner who is slow or lazy (over half the time), you’re just sitting there. Far worse, is that there’s no “this image is crappy” or “this image is clearly someone’s personal or copyrighted image” button that, if clicked by both people, would remove it from search. At least 80% of the images that have come up in this “game” wouldn’t ever be of any use to anyone.

By: Peter Woodward

Peter Woodward — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:23:38 +0000

I found that the game was very addictive and I have recently stopped playing it, however it is good to try!

By: Remix

Remix — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:49:55 +0000

hey, this is cool, haven’t seen it before, thought this might be to label my own images - i guess the tags do that to some extent already but not as exact as a whole list of keywords.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:48:13 +0000

Google are brilliantly intelligent coming up with this label tool. Get the users to help with tagging for better Google Image search results.

Its also very addictive when bored at the office.

By: The Tutor

The Tutor — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:40:46 +0000

me too, it is addicting

By: rhea - google fan

rhea - google fan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:25:35 +0000

I actually play this game once in a while.

By: web design company

web design company — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:55:48 +0000

Label different images with google image labeler.