[Clipart] tag you're it (fwd)

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 02:44 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> My eternal admiration - and large amounts of my free time - to whomever
> creates a tagging game for OpenClipart.  (I'm forwarding my own message
> sent to a different list.)

This would be a useful feature for ccHost in order to improve our tags.

Jon

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 00:09:35 +0100 (BST)
> From: Alan Horkan <horkana at maths.tcd.ie>
> Subject: tag you're it
> 
> 
> http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/
> 
> Time wasting in a way that helps improves your search results.
> 
> Best personal score so far 1300.
> 
> Actually it probably doesn't help search results a huge amount since short
> first impression keywords of tiny images are not likely to be good
> quality - man, woman, machine, robot, text, screenshot, game, old, fat
> young - but if you scale things up it might actually work and produce
> decent results.  Either way it is a fun distraction.
> 
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