We’ve known for a while that Google is busy scanning and digitizing millions of books from throughout human history. They’ve even enlisted idle human brainpower to decipher unknown words with a high degree of certainty. But until recently, Google hasn’t had much to show for its efforts other than the Google Books website and a [...]
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Tags: books, Google, Google Books, Google Labs, Ngram Viewer, reCAPTCHA 
2 Comments »Most people don’t think twice about CAPTCHA’s – those funny looking prompts presented to Internet users to differentiate them from spam-bots or automated malicious scripts. They’re quickly answered, granting people access to the websites and information being sought. As the technology available to the Internet’s evil-doers has advanced allowing the defeat of early CAPTCHA [...]
Posted in Internet, Web Technology Tags: advertising, CAPTCHA, Internet, NuCaptcha, NuCaptcha Engage, reCAPTCHA, security, Solve Media, spam 2 Comments »The idea to turn those annoying but necessary CAPTCHA prompts Internet users face everyday into a productive use of idle human brainpower is nothing new. For several years now, reCAPTCHA has been applying its spam thwarting CAPTCHA techniques to digitize massive numbers of the world’s books – a task which ultimately got it purchased by [...]
Posted in Internet, Web Technology Tags: advertising, CAPTCHA, Internet, reCAPTCHA, security, Solve Media, spam 1 Comment »Spam stinks. But books are good. That’s the idea behind reCAPTCHA, an anti-spam tool that, in addition to preventing the Internet from being overloaded with inappropriate content, is helping accurately digitize vast quantities of printed media. In fact, the technology is so integral to Google’s Books project, Google announced that it is acquiring the small [...]
Posted in Consumer Electronics, eBooks, Google, Internet, Technology Tags: CAPTCHA, eBook, Internet, reCAPTCHA, security, spam 5 Comments »
