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Google Images: America at Home

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
16 years ago7,034 views

Google Images Search's homepage now has a link to the "America at Home" project.

<< Google Inc. is taking the unprecedented step of promoting America at Home on the Google Images home page, building an iGoogle Gadget to allow visitors to see submitted photos sorted by zip code and helping engage the online community. >>
http://www.myamericaathome.com/about.php

http://images.google.com

DPic [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Wow. And they're also linking back to the Image Labler Game again? Why do they need the image labler when they have now acquired Neven Vision???

Haochi [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I was told that this is called Human Based Computation, "a technique when a computational process performs its function via outsourcing certain steps to humans."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-based_computation

DPic [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I know what it is-- it just doesn't seem very Google-y

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