Now they need your help!

Google - the corporate giant, now needs your help. No, no, they are too smart to pay you. Don’t think that they will make the same mistake again - paying you for adwords. They will give you a game, and you will play it. And when you play this game you will help them …. to tag their huge image database … for free. Sounds good, ah ?

The following text is an excerpt from Google Image Labeler (http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/)

How does it work?

You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.

And why I should be paired with a random partner ? They are affraid that we will try to manipulate the tags and give wrong suggestions ?

If I find a time I will write bots that will tag their images with bullshits, and once this bots are paired they will “tag” their images as they know. Is that fair ?