Google Image Labeler

Google is crowdsourcing their image management with this new application, the Google Image Labeler. In the past, when you do a Google Image search, Google would decide what the images were “about” by indexing what the pages that they appeared on were about. Now, they can use the tags people put in. But they won’t use just any tags anybody puts in. When you load up the Image Labeler, you’re paired up with another person in real time, and both of you suggest tags for a set of images. When your suggestions match, that’s a good indication that the matching term is a good tag, and Google adds that to the index for that image.