http://thomashawk.com/2006/09/google-image-labeler-lame-lame-lame.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:09:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://thomashawk.com/2006/09/google-image-labeler-lame-lame-lame.html/comment-page-1#comment-12147 Anonymous Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:39:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1824#comment-12147 See US patent app 20060179053 from Microsoft - "Improving quality of web search results using a game". The abstract reads "A system combines individual estimates of the subjective appeal of web pages into a combined rating for each web page that can be used to rank web pages during a web search. In a gaming implementation, a web page recipient estimates the combined rating that other recipients of the web page have formulated. The recipient can be rewarded for accurately estimating the combined rating by receiving a subsequent web page that possesses a high rating."<br />Go to www.pat2pdf.org for a pdf copy See US patent app 20060179053 from Microsoft – “Improving quality of web search results using a game”. The abstract reads “A system combines individual estimates of the subjective appeal of web pages into a combined rating for each web page that can be used to rank web pages during a web search. In a gaming implementation, a web page recipient estimates the combined rating that other recipients of the web page have formulated. The recipient can be rewarded for accurately estimating the combined rating by receiving a subsequent web page that possesses a high rating.”
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