Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Google Programmer Having Fun?


I kid you not, I just submitted a URL to Google for indexing and they presented me with a "Please retype the squiggly line letters that you see in the box" form. The letters in the box? PROGUN. No kidding. Swear on my cat's life. Well, the one anyway....the other one I don't really care for that much. Are you serious? There is no way that was random. Somebody hacked that code and dropped a few funny ones in. I almost keyed in "YES" instead of retyping it. If that was random - I'll eat the, er, gun in the photo to the right. My brother-in-law sent me an interesting article a while back about how hackers have already beat the squiggly lines and they can identify the characters faster with their software than the human eye. Look for the squiggly line thingies to make like BetaMax.

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