Today I Learned

Jan 08, 2011 21:14

TIL that the reCAPTCHA I hate going through to post anonymously is actually for a good cause.

reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and ( Read more... )

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dragonimp January 9 2011, 07:03:20 UTC
Wow. That's like, a benign underhanded deviousness.

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abstract_helix January 9 2011, 07:05:42 UTC
Exactly what you would expect of google.

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