I played around on Google’s Image Labeler a little bit more since it launched 24 hours ago.
Here are the results thus far:
You get 100 points for everytime you and your random partner successfully tag a photo. Thus, I’ve labeled 129 photos so far.
The overall leader board looks like this:
If you do the math, Google has nearly 6000 images tagged by the top 5 alone in addition to at least 125,000 other photos tagged by 1000 people.
So exactly how many people have labeled images now? I decided to change my identity by logging into a different GMail account as RickyBobbyNASCAR. As seen here:
After labeling 76 photos, my alter ego is still not ranked individually for one reason or another, so it is difficult to say how many people are currently using this (maybe the threshold contains only the Top 1000).
I do have to say that some of the people that label pictures have no clue about geography. A map of a tropical storm was shown with a path projected to hit the eastern coast. Kentucky was not on the map, yet it was listed as an “off-limit” word… which usually means alot of people have typed Kentucky as a label. Also, Wink was the best teammate by far (kept bumping into him).
Note: regarding numbers, Luis von Ahn (creator of this system) estimated that it would only take 2 months for Google to properly tag all of their hundreds of millions of photos with a paltry 5000 users. In 24 hours alone, they have done at least 131,000.
Not too shabby.