A very funny comic I found in a forum
reCAPTCHA has been acquired by Google today. reCAPTCHA is an anti-spam measure designed to normally combat spam bots that automatically parse and read texts (or images that contain texts). A good example is the CAPTCHA joke on the left 
What is a CAPTCHA? (You didn’t know?). CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. Not gonna explain what a Turing test is but you can always find out more about CAPTCHA @Wikipedia.
You’ve seen it almost everywhere on the internet: almost on every registration forms, login, or whenever you are trying to submit a form of information on a site. Even though there are many “CAPTCHA” styles, I prefer seeing sites with reCAPTCHA.
A reCAPTCHA’s CAPTCHA looks like:
Normally it’s not too hard to read a reCAPTCHA’s CAPTCHA and you can always click on the refresh for it to generate new CAPTCHAs. Some CAPTCHAs are quite annoying though (especially RapidShare’s with all the cats hanging around the letters – not sure if they are still using it now).
Let’s hope Google finds a way to integrate or enhance reCAPTCHA for a better web, free of spam (just a wishful thinking here).
Source: Official Google Blog
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I think they should make reCaptcha a bit harder, it seems too simple to be safe. I lold@pic.
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Yeah, some CAPTCHAs are annoying. Most of the time you thought you typed the right letters and numbers, only to find out that you’re wrong and have to type a new set of characters. It’s more annoying if you’re wrong on the CAPTCHA and when the page refreshes, your work disappears and you have to type all of it again.
We all hope that they do something to improve CAPTCHA. make it even easier for people to read, but still spam proof.
are you human? i like this joke when i see chaptcas
Oh this is another part of the war between the giants. Google is intensify extending their services while Bing’s doing the same things. Are they making the better Internet
It is interesting to wait how Google will rebuild this things.
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Oh… they are good at finding innovative things and acquiring them.
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This is fantastic news, I think. Google owns a really big piece of the Internet pie. Will MSN or Yahoo ever catch up and be real competitors?
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Hopefully one day they will but it’ll be tough for them to keep up with the almighty Google
Cartoon above is really funny, Google acquired a good deal here. It has everything in its arsenal now except a good email delivery system (Feedburner sucks)
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funny cartoon strip.. haha..
somehow i think the captcha thingy is a nuisance sometimes.. =P
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Yeah but as you know, it also helps you in combating spam and moderating them
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