I remember a few months ago I watched this brilliant Google Tech Talk on “Human Computation”. It’s defiantly worth a watch:

In this talk, Luis von Ahn (an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University), talked about different techniques they were using to solve a problem which currently exists. How do we label / search / index all the images on the web? With this, he talked about different strategies they were using to achieve this. All were extreemly creative – and fun!

Today I see that Google launched Google Image Labeler which Implements a great way to Label / Index all the images images – through a simple Game.

It’s got Top scores:

And a simple interface:

Try it – check it out, its very cool.