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Re: ~article~ Are you Google's gopher?

__/ [ John Bokma ] on Friday 15 September 2006 06:27 \__

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> __/ [ Paul ] on Thursday 14 September 2006 17:44 \__
>> 
>>> From : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5336284.stm
>>> 
>>> Google has just taken on legions of new workers. None are being paid
>>> - and you might be one of them.
>>> 
>>> Since workplace computers were hooked up to the internet, office
>>> workers have found more ways of wasting time at work, with e-mailed
>>> jokes or videos of apparently-amusing accidents.
>>> 
>>> <snip />
>> 
>> More recently, Google unveiled a servcies wherein people label images
>> for Google. Amazon has been doing something similar, but compensated
>> people for their time. Microsoft does the same thing when it
>> encourages people to serve as test dummies. Why would people help
>> multi-billion corporations for free? it's beyond me...
> 
> I did the labeling thing with Google Images a few times. It's fun.
> Although some of the images are way too small.


Why not use captions and the alt attribute as they already do, at least in
part? It can be trusted as much as an army of volunteers.


> As for free? If Google can label the images better, I would be very happy.
> AI is not (yet) going to work, I am afraid :-D.


For some images, you can get decent certainty. Google services already make
use of face recognition -- a recent Google acquition (IP acquisition, as
much as a company/software acquisition).


> I use Image search a lot, and correctly labelled images are certainly
> worth my time. Your question is the same as: why post people on Usenet, or
> comment on blogs, or why do people write open source.
> 
> Because they can :-)


I think it would be nice to make the results of labelling available to all
(competition included). This serves everyone better rather than endow one
company with an asset.


>> Microsoft wants more Vista testers
> 
> Yup, good plan. More testers means that bugs will be found sooner, before
> the official release comes out. It's in everybody's best interest that as
> much are ironed out as possible, especially since there are people who
> refuse to patch/update.


Best wishes,

Roy

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