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Google, Yahoo Going Shopping Again

Peter Kafka in Media on September 23, 2009 at 3:12 pm PT

Remember the good old days of the last Web boom, when start-ups sold to Google and Yahoo instead of going public? They’re back!

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John Paczkowski in News on September 16, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

Evidently, Google’s efforts to create a new CAPTCHA system that requires people to rotate images until they’re upright aren’t moving as quickly as the company would like. Because this morning, the search giant said it had acquired reCAPTCHA, developer of the Web’s preeminent CAPTCHA technology.

Insert Bad “Google Captchas reCAPTCHA” Pun Here

John Paczkowski in News on September 16, 2009 at 11:38 am PT

Evidently, Google’s efforts to create a new CAPTCHA system that requires people to rotate images until they’re upright aren’t moving as quickly as the company would like. Because this morning, the search giant said it had acquired reCAPTCHA, developer of the Web’s preeminent CAPTCHA technology.