The leading source for credible citizen reporting

Report Your News
Take the tour...
Mainstream News

This event is older than two months and is no longer active. Some links older than two months could be broken.

Report Your News

Click here to post a new related report

Google acquires Web security firm reCAPTCHA

Source: Sydney Morning Herald
Goole : United Kingdom | 2 months ago  
0 0
Views: 2
The Mountain View, California-based Internet search and advertising giant did not disclose the terms of the acquisition. Google products "but also to improve our books and newspaper scanning process." Optical Character Recognition technology "improves the process that converts scanned images...
  • Print
  • Share:
  • Share
  • Digg
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Stumbleupon
READ MORE: ReCaptcha, United Kingdom, Goole
More News From: Goole : United Kingdom

Related Allvoices Contributions

News Stories
 
  • Google Plays CAPTCHA the Flag
    News Source: The Motley Fool | 2 months ago
    You may be buying concert tickets or posting on a message board when -- bam! -- up comes a box of squiggly text that you have to retype before you can keep going...The challenge-response mechanism is put in place to make sure that the person on the...
  • Google acquires ReCaptcha fraud prevention software
    News Source: Independent | 2 months ago
    Google has acquired ReCaptcha, a company that helps prevent fraud and spam at websites like Ticketmaster .ie. The technology will be used to protect web surfers and improve the scanning of books and newspapers, Google said today on its blog.
  • Tech Trader Daily: I *HATE* re-captcha. Captchas are user-hostile enough ...
    News Source: Uinta County News | 2 months ago
    Web-based security systems that involve reading squiggly type and typing it into a box...So the technology will be used not only for security purposes, but also to improve Google’s book and newspaper scanning. Terms of the deal were not announced.
  • Google buys outfit that makes those squiggly word boxes for Web sites
    News Source: San Francisco Chronicle | 2 months ago
    Humans can read and retype the words to use various services online, but the slanting, jumbled or distorted letters often trip up malicious programs. In the case of ReCaptcha, many of the words come from scanned old newspapers and books, which...
  • Google acquires Web security firm reCAPTCHA
    News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | 2 months ago
    The Mountain View, California-based Internet search and advertising giant did not disclose the terms of the acquisition. Google products "but also to improve our books and newspaper scanning process." Optical Character Recognition technology "...
Most Popular Reports
Most Viewed
Most Commented

Related Tweets

  • timesjoanna

    @timesjoanna I believe @adders is also blogging #tedxtuttle (I'm reading over his shoulder!)

    2 months ago
  • rhodri

    @rhodri The world was a better place when stuff like this could get to No. 5 in the charts. http://is.gd/3naRI Thanks to @kevcecil for the reminder.

    2 months ago

Site Links

Site Topics

Contributions

Help and Accounts

Administrative


Use of this site is governed by our Terms of Use Agreement and Privacy Policy.

© Allvoices, Inc 2008-2009. All rights reserved.