This is a great time-waster! You get matched up with someone else randomly chosen, and you have 90 seconds to each come up with the same keyword for an image. The more matches, the more points. If you get stuck, try something obvious, like the predominant color of an image. Oh, and you can sign in as a guest.
Oh, and I sincerely hope Google’s not actually using these labels, or else you’d get an awfully lot of useless hits for things like “blue” when it’s obviously a picture of a 1920s style death ray!
I think they are, based on this quote: “Thanks for your contribution. It will help us improve the relevance of image search results so that you and other Google users can quickly and easily find the results you’re looking for. To find out more about the images that you labeled and the sites they came from, click on any of the images below.”
My best score so far is 600; I’m playing as a guest. Do they save your scores if you sign up with a name?
I don’t know how valuable this will be in the long run.
For example, one picture I had was of some crocuses. I knew they were crocuses but my partner didn’t, so the hit that Google recorded was “flowers”. Same with a Van Gogh painting that had a house in it. The thing that got recorded was “house”. Not very in-depth.
Heh. I can beat that. I had a picture of swans swimming in a lake. My partner’s terms were “bird” and “geese”.
And what’s with “bequeathing”, “forbearance” and “googley” being suggested for at least one image per game? Am I getting the same “random” partner, or is there some kind of movement? If so, one of the Movement is quite annoying–some of them will go on to list actual image-relavant terms, but this last game, for the picture of the RV on a road surrounded by trees, I tried: road, street, RV, camper, tree, trees, forest, woods, and their only suggestion was “googley”!
I know, jjimm, and that’s why I was hoping they weren’t taking it too seriously too. Maybe they’re using all of the guesses as data points? It’s fun anyway though.
And Kat, yes, they accumulate your scores if you sign in with a name, but the top scores feature doesn’t seem to work very well. One time 1200 will be on top, then 1100, and then 1300. It seems a little random.
Top score so far is 1200. Some people are tuned into the thing, while others sit staring stupidly at the screen, apparently. Then there are the two finger typists… I end up with five or six responses and usually the first two from a partner will match.
I noticed that, too. I keep getting people’s guesses - for no apparent reason - with words like “entrepreneurism”, “congenital”, and, oddly, “googley”.
Considering the guesses I do see are often spelled wrong, I just can’t see my partners coming up with such big words for a simple portrait picture of a woman smiling.
(One partner typed in one word and one word only for a picture of a smiling asian lady. I tried everything, until finally, one last shot: the word hot. It worked.) :smack: