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Google buys reCaptcha - and that's the end of Captchas.

Tuesday, 22. September 2009, 09:39:11

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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/teaching-computers-to-read-google.html

Google says it wants to use reCaptcha to teach its own search engines how to read scanned materials. The unfortunate side-effect is that it teaches computers to read captchas, too, rendering them useless.

Thank you, Google.

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