The headline on the Official Google Blog makes sure you know what a CAPTCHA is; “Google Acquires reCAPTCHA” is written in the now-familiar wavy, squiggly-style font that you are used to seeing when ...

Google today acquired reCAPTCHA, a tiny firm originally started as a project of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. CAPTCHAs are those funny little stretched out text images ...

Google plans to accelerate its massive efforts to scan tens of millions of books and periodicals with the acquisition on Wednesday of a company called reCAPTCHA. ReCAPTCHA is a well-known provider of ...

Google ceremoniously announced today that they were acquiring a small academic company called reCAPTCHA, which builds software that tries to differentiate humans from algorithms on web submissions.