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 bought reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to shield more than 100,000 Websites from spam and fraud. But Google isn’t just trying to fend off spam, it’s buying the startup to ...

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 is making changes to its reCaptcha system: distorted text images are out, while numbers and more-adaptive, puzzle-based authentication checks are in. The change is necessary because text-only ...