Nobody likes spam, or word verification. It’s a Pain. Or you could look at it as a Challenge.
After watching this video forwarded to me by Ruth from Body, Soul & Spirit I have a new respect for reCaptcha word verification.
Do you like to read? I mean books, online. Well then thank reCaptcha because what this does is digitize books one word at a time. That’s right. By taking 10 seconds out of your life you are helping translate scanned pages from books. “About 200 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day.” We are smarter than computers who can’t read words.
Of course there’s the added bonus of word verification preventing comment spam on our blogs. I appreciate not having to double check the not always reliable blogspot for spam comments. (Sorry about the double negative.) So now I’m going to put word verification back on my blog and challenge you all to figure it out. If you’ll comment that is. Hasta luego.
To tour more of the world, with or without word verification, go to Our World Tuesday by clicking here.
“The term CAPTCHA (for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) was coined in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper and John Langford of Carnegie Mellon University. At the time, they developed the first CAPTCHA to be used by Yahoo.” http://www.google.com/recaptcha/captcha
Now I feel helpful every time I successfully type a word verification, if I’m right the first time. Otherwise I cuss.
(BTW, why have both word verification and moderation?)
(BTW, why have both word verification and moderation?)
