Google Furthers World Domination Through Inticing New Game
Looking for a complete new waste of your time? Perhaps a new internet addiction? Try the new Google Image Labler. As a means of generating those oh-so-valuable tags on their image file index, Google has invented a game to entice us all to provide those tags. When you log-on, you're randomly assigned a partner - another person who is playing - and you job is to match tags on pictures for two minutes and earn points. You're both simultaneously shown the same image, and you keep typing in words until you match, or both participants pass on that image. The goal is to generate as many points together as possible.
Some are easy, some are hard and the more descriptive terms are worth more. For example, matching on "man" or "actor" might yield you 50 points, where matching on "Lawrence Olivier" might garner you up to 150 points. Hooking up with a newbie or someone who just can't identify anything can be annoying, but getting a partner who is good is a real rush as you start racking up points. If you're the kind of person who easily fell prey to the black holes of time that are things like Tetris, Bejeweled or Word Sleuth, beware: for you, this will be addictive. You've been warned.