Google buys ReCAPTCHA

 Google has purchased ReCAPTCHA Inc., the CMU spinoff that is behind those distorted images used in Web site security. Story here from the CMU site.

Posted Sep 17 2009, 06:38 PM by Ced Kurtz

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Digital TV Advice wrote re: Google buys ReCAPTCHA
on Tue, Oct 6 2009 9:45 AM

Those Captcha things are fine as long as they're vaguely readable - some of them are impossible to make out and it's not unheard of to use up 3 or 4 attempts to read it. Essential tool nonetheless.