Posted
5:08 PM
by Gene
The geeks of Slashdot discuss splogging:Word verification is obsolete.
Programs have been written that can successfully decode capchas most of the time. It turns out not to be too hard to modify OCR programs to do this.
Word verification can be outsourced to third world countries at low cost.
Most cleverly, word verification can outsourced to users of your porno sites, who have to type in soneone else's capcha [SIC]
to get free pictures.
All these approaches are in active use.And we must confess we agree with this:
The trick is to figure out which are "splogs" and which are "real" blogs, because both are usually crap.And something else: if pornsters and other spammers can goose G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,GLE, why not "legitimate" advertisers? How much of Google's gold-dollars-from-heaven wealth comes from schemes that may not exactly be -- KOSHER?
P. S. I wouldn't object so much to G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE's @#$%&* WORD VERIFICATION if EVERYBODY had to do it.