Fighting SPAM has become a big task while we work on Internet. I have been getting huge amount of spam via my blogs. Yesterday I expanded the usage of reCAPTCHA plug-in usage to comments etc to block almost all spam. Today, I received 0 SPAM comments. Tension free day..
Read more about reCAPTCHA which enables you to ensure that only human beings comment on your blog.
A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You’ve probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from “bots,” or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs. Continue reading….
By using reCAPTCHA, you are helping them to degitize the books available in Internet archives. So helping lots of people who might make use of it just by using it on my website. Using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) reCAPTCHA captures the content from books and with your help that content can be verified to further train OCR to make it perfect.
PS: If you find this option difficult to follow each time you comment on my articles, register and then try commenting.
