As of last May, the words were being fed into partially unreadable texts on the Internet Archive. I would assume it has expanded since then as 8,000 words doesn't seem like enough for the number of websites that are now using reCaptchas.
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2097/saving-books-by-solving-puzzles chad On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Jonathan Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rufus Pollock wrote: > [snip] > > In particular what are > > people's views on the effectiveness (and cost of implementation) of > > things like: > > > > * captchas (and texchas) > > Has anyone had any experience using reCAPTCHA? > > http://recaptcha.net/ > > Its a nice idea: stopping spam and trying to identify things that OCR > software can't. I do wonder where all the identified words end up... > > > Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >
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