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Sunday, 6 November 2011

Thanks, Web User: You’re a Part-Time Internet Archivist

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Look familiar? Those confusing semi-words you retype to buy Rolling Stones tickets on TicketMaster.com or sell an antique lamp on Craigslist might not read as real words, but they are. They're actually images from the pages of books -- and thanks to reCAPTCHA technology, they're a key reason Google has digitized more than 15 million books since 2004.

The Google Books project has vastly improved the quality of digitized text, thanks in part to those curvy, sometimes colorful words on the web that are filled out 200 million times a day, explained Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor Luis von Ahn, the inventor of the reCAPTCHA system.    More Read

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