Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
by userbinator on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @11:55PM
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When trying to use Google to find something obscure, I'm not so much bothered by the difficulty of doing so as I am by the implication that "real humans" don't use complex search queries. They used to teach in computer literacy courses how to use search engines, complete with complex multi-term boolean queries, to find exactly what you're looking for. Now try the same with Google and you're a bot? WTF? They're basically saying "humans are too stupid to do that - humans are supposed to be stupid."
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
by wastedhours on Thursday December 04, 2014 @09:49AM
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Or that a lot of their target demographic has never been taught that, and so they've optimised their delivery to be accessible to the majority?
Re:Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA”
by AndrewKemendo on Thursday December 04, 2014 @10:53AM
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Well to be fair most of their users probably are too "stupid" (aka were never taught) to do that.
Google seems robust because humans generally think pretty similarly, and generally look for the things that the people around them are talking about or also looking for. That breaks down considerably though across cultures and time.