Google just announced that they have bought reCaptcha. reCaptcha has been a leading company in helping to thwart comment and account spam by requiring a human to decipher characters and words scanned from books before continuing on in a posting or sign up process. Check out the article here:

Official Google Blog: Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA.

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