Google Buys reCaptcha To Help With Book Digitization

Talk about crowdsourcing. Google has acquired reCaptcha, the popular anti-spam mechanism that uses scans of old documents as the verification words for filling out forms.

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This is truly the power of micro-actions. Every user inputs 2 words taken from some old book and transcribes it as verification. With the strength of Google’s network, this will most likely convert into 2 words translating hundreds of thousands of novels everyday.

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