Google Acquires ReCaptcha to fight spam
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" Gaurav Bagdi is a 22 year old part time Blogger, Technical writer. Interested in day to day evolution in the field of technology. He’s the editor of Webketu - Technology Evolves. and owner of NetKetu. You can also catch him on twitter.”
My My My, is there a war going on between APPLE and GOOGLE to be the talk of the town? or something.
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I don’t seem to get over the fact that yesterday it was APPLE the talk of the town, and with two latest news including an Acquisition and a new stable release of their Chrome browser has put GOOGLE right under the spotlight for today and at least coming few days.
Okay, so lets talk about this news of the moment. GOOGLE has announced a real strange and promising acquisition today.
An official states and clarifies a bit about what this acquisition really means, “reCAPTCHA’s unique technology improves the process that converts scanned images into plain text, known as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). This technology also powers large scale text scanning projects like Google Books and Google News Archive Search. Having the text version of documents is important because plain text can be searched, easily rendered on mobile devices and displayed to visually impaired users. So we’ll be applying the technology within Google not only to increase fraud and spam protection for Google products but also to improve our books and newspaper scanning process.”
Altogether, this is really going to be an interesting affair between the Internet GIANT and a system originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University (AkA ReCaptcha).
For the record says – The ReCaptcha system is reported to deliver 30 million images every day (as of December 2007[update]),and counts such popular sites as Facebook, TicketMaster, Twitter and StumbleUpon amongst subscribers. Craigslist began using reCAPTCHA in June 2008. The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration also uses reCAPTCHA for its digital TV converter box coupon program website as part of the US DTV transition.
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