User-Assigned Labels Now Invited for Google LIFE Photos

[beamjockey]

The other day I noticed that the Life magazine photo collection at Google now allows users to provide tags or "labels" for the images.

This might help alleviate the helpless feeling I get when I realize that I'm looking at a photo, and I know what's in it, but there is no indication that Life does. For example, Allan Grant's pictures of the

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[isherempress]

You nailed it, Bill. "Signal to noise" ratio.

Sigh. In the old days professional catalogers ruled. Around the same time that professional typesetters ruled. In these brave new days, I've been made redundant twice!

I think I've told you the Cataloger's Maxim: (1) No cataloger will accept the work of another. (2) No cataloger will accept her / his own work 6 months later.

So... good luck with your tagging! xoxo

[mbcrui]

My altruism will wear thin, somewhere around Photo Three.

That's what Copy and Paste are for. :) It's Google, send an email and complain and someone will come up with an app for multiple tagging.