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Silas Notes

Stop Spam, Read Books

Posted by Doug Nelson on May 25, 2007

A great idea: reCAPTCHA uses the spam-filtering “type the words you see” technique to get site users to transcribe old books for the Internet Archive. Ideas like this are what make the internet all warm and fuzzy.

( via the ever-helpful LifeHacker )

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