September 17, 2009
Google acquires reCAPTCHA
Seems like a somewhat natural fit with Google’s “digitize the world” mission
I think that this is slightly more interesting in that, as far as I know, Google has been algorithm driven with no human input or correction.
For example, Paypal is partially human driven (fraud and rebates etc.) while Google Checkout has much less human intervention. Google Voice transcriptions are, poorly, computer transcribed while competing services, who do a much better job and even allow you to spell out words and both are about the same speed.
