Comments | eftsoons: Warning: Completely addictive. Word games, anyone?

eftsoons

Warning: Completely addictive. Word games, anyone?

Dec 18, 2006 13:29

Google Image Labeler"Get your creative synapses firing by (a) viewing images from Google's vast library and then (b) free-associating words. Google turns it into a game by pairing you with an online partner; when both of you tag an image with the same word, a new image appears. Time's up after 90 seconds. Clever crowdsourcing for Google (which is ( Read more... )

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eftsoons December 19 2006, 00:03:53 UTC

I swear we've had this conversation before (addictive vs. addicting. I agree that the latter is usually used improperly. If you want to say it's addicting, you have to say WHOM or WHAT it is addicting). ;)

levaniel December 19 2006, 05:02:42 UTC

Definitely being paired with a machine. Because no one would say "carcinoma" for a map of Japan. Or "abrasive" for a lake.

fadedpaladin December 19 2006, 14:44:05 UTC

hey! I got that same machine!
Carcinoma for a picture of ocean & trees, abrasives for two women and a dog!
to say nothing of diphosphonate for a bay..

fadedpaladin December 19 2006, 14:53:45 UTC

blargh. every round since then, there's been at least one diphosphonate.

pigfish December 20 2006, 01:24:22 UTC

I think you should have to log in, and if you are clearly fucking with the results, you get banned. I have people put things like "penis" in every one... i doubt that's a computer, but it's still lame...

pigfish December 20 2006, 01:32:44 UTC

Ok, now this is STRANGE. you know how it lists "off limits" words, the really obvious words? well one of them on my last picture was "forebearance". WHAT?

eftsoons December 20 2006, 01:54:43 UTC

Maybe someone really is typing in "forebearance" for every picture and the nice people at Google (or the smart engine) are sick of it?

eftsoons December 20 2006, 01:54:58 UTC

Makes sense to me.