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Old 02-29-2012, 01:45 AM  
rowan
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Originally Posted by V_RocKs View Post
Remember how Google was putting old books on the internet? Well, many of the captchas you see are actually from those books. OCR couldn't give it a 99% lock so it went to captcha. 10,000 entered what they thought they saw and Google got the little bit of text decoded...
The "unknown" word in most recaptcha boxes I get presented with is not an english word, which makes things more difficult... it's both visually distorted and an unfamiliar word, so it sometimes takes me a couple of goes.

FWIW, Google's search captchas are a different thing, they're not recaptcha.

recaptcha is also a mini google analytics, sets a cookie so it can track you across any pages which use that service.
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