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Yeah, that is remarkably similar, even down to the phrasing of the messages. What I'm not clear on, though, is that the ESP game also claims to help improve image metadata, but I don't see what they're doing with the data they gather.

The Google version does make a few things easier by using Ajax for interaction, rather than Java, but the two games do some conceptually identical. I do think, though, that if we're talking about a prisoner's dilemma in which the third party is the police, Google seems more like the "police" in its quest to assimilate all of the world's information than CMU does.

Thanks for the link.