Filed under: Fun, Photo, Web services, Google
Google Image Labeler: A hive-mind "game" from Google
It's easy to see how this benefit's Google's index: If two randomly-selected people happen to enter the same keyword for the same image, it's a pretty good bet that it's an accurate keyword for that image. This is a pretty smooth move on Google's part, harnessing the brainpower of bored Google fans to do what computers can't currently do well--glean meaningful data from images. If Google can get--and keep--enough people playing the game, it could really strengthen their image search offering.
[Via Google Blogscoped]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
