Google Acquired ReCAPTCHA
September 17th, 2009
“Google has acquired ReCAPTCHA” as per one of the post on googleblog by Luis von Ahn on 16 September 2009.
As all of us are very well aware with the CAPTCHA, basically they are those tricky and funky looking characters (mainly alphabets and numbers). CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) are those letters which we need to submit while we are submitting form or web pages.
Google Recaptcha
reCAPCHA is a company which has providing this services to more than 100,000 websites. As there are many CAPTCHA companies available on the market but Google has choosen them only because they are using a technology that improves the process to convert scanned images into the text format. This technology is known as Optical Character Recognition. OCR is also used for large scale text scanning like Google Books and Google News Archive Search. Scanning of images in to the plain text is important because easily displayed to visually impaired users, mobile devices.
This will help to keep away spam and other automated software from than 100,000 websites as those websites have now Google powered CAPTCHA technology.
source from googleblog.blogspot.com
