On 1/4/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nathan C. Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:smith@ipmvs.com">smith@ipmvs.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">I was
thinking something more like Google's compute experiment or <a href="mailto:SETI@home" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">SETI@home</a> might be useful on the Google PC.
Google could fragment a problem - for example - OCRing all the text in
images on the web by breaking it down into pieces and having each machine work
through a fraction of an image as time and CPU permits. Nothing too time
sensitive. Of course you would have to have an algorithm to prioritize
which images were OCR'd first, and a way to break them down and distribute them
etc. etc. I've heard there are a few good minds a
Google.</font></span></div></blockquote><div><br>But wouldn't that be a whole lot easier to do with their GoogleDesktop or whatever their windows software is called? Even as a firefox plugin or something. Along the lines of distributed-OCR, have you looked at Amazon's mturk? I half expected paypal to setup something like it before the Ebay buyout -- you need your own micropayment setup, or it becomes too expensive to be practical.
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