Comments on: Google ‘captchas’ ReCAPTCHA http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/google-captchas-recaptcha/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:36:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: pond http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/google-captchas-recaptcha/comment-page-1/#comment-1145213 pond Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:32:51 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/09/16/google-captchas-recaptcha/#comment-1145213 This is great news for google books, many of which have horrible OCR applied, and not corrected. My only fear would be, then, that reCaptcha will from now on be at the service of Google books and Google books alone, and the Internet Archive and other sources that used to enjoy their fruits, will be shut out. This is great news for google books, many of which have horrible OCR applied, and not corrected.

My only fear would be, then, that reCaptcha will from now on be at the service of Google books and Google books alone, and the Internet Archive and other sources that used to enjoy their fruits, will be shut out.

]]> By: Michael Pastore http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/google-captchas-recaptcha/comment-page-1/#comment-1145164 Michael Pastore Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:19:58 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/09/16/google-captchas-recaptcha/#comment-1145164 Interesting article here -- about low-paid foreign workers hired to solve CAPTCHAs -- which might explain Google's interest in buying (and improving the security of) the CAPTCHA experience. (I would have title the article: The CAPTCHAN CRUNCH): http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/breaking-google-captchas-for-3-a-day/ Interesting article here — about low-paid foreign workers hired to solve CAPTCHAs — which might explain Google’s interest in buying (and improving the security of) the CAPTCHA experience.

(I would have title the article: The CAPTCHAN CRUNCH):

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/breaking-google-captchas-for-3-a-day/

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