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18Aug/107

Worst Captcha Ever

I've never been one to submit my blog to any directories, link directories, etc, as I've never felt like monetising it. It's a site I run for fun and it goes through phases of being updated fairly regularly, to not at all and back again.
I recently, however, was reading a blog post about a number of blog directories, and decided to look through a couple of them. After browsing around Blogged for a while, I decided to sign up and see if the site would send any traffic this way. It was here that I encountered possibly the worst CAPTCHA I've ever personally come across:
Worst ever CAPTCHA image

Incidentally, what I put in was accepted, so I'm either very lucky, or the second part of the image is ignored!

Can you beat it?

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  • http://www.gospelrhys.co.uk/ Rhys

    No I can’t beat it :(

    The way in which reCAPTCHA (the system with two words) works is a way of digitizing books. It ignores half of the image (it’s a word it wants to find out), whereas the other is a word that it knows.

    Over time, it pools the most popular conversions of the mystery word that are accepted (i.e. the first word matches), and the word becomes digitized.

    Hopes that helps :)

  • http://www.gospelrhys.co.uk/ Rhys

    No I can’t beat it :(

    The way in which reCAPTCHA (the system with two words) works is a way of digitizing books. It ignores half of the image (it’s a word it wants to find out), whereas the other is a word that it knows.

    Over time, it pools the most popular conversions of the mystery word that are accepted (i.e. the first word matches), and the word becomes digitized.

    Hopes that helps :)

  • http://www.digeratimarketing.co.uk Mark

    The smallest word is generally ignored. ReCAPTCHA is just a scam for OCRing books afterall.

  • http://www.digeratimarketing.co.uk Mark

    The smallest word is generally ignored. ReCAPTCHA is just a scam for OCRing books afterall.

  • http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk Andy

    Well blow me down, I never knew that! I should probably pay more attention!

  • http://www.andrewblackburn.co.uk Andy

    Well blow me down, I never knew that! I should probably pay more attention!

  • Anonymous

    Decided to change to Disqus commenting system, as my host doesn’t seem to be sending notification emails at the moment. Been meaning to do it for a while anyways.

    Cheers for your contributions Rhys/Mark.

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