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Google Acquires CAPTCHA Company

Google announced today that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, a company that provides CAPTCHAs to over 100,000 sites around the web. Perhaps you're thinking that Google was inspired by a patent recently granted to Microsoft for advertising via the CAPTCHA. Maybe Google will be the first to offer AdWords in CAPTCHAs. Maybe "relevant" CAPTCHA text.

Gmail Spam On The Rise

This story relates to Google, and also to a month-to-month increase of around 100 percent.  It can hardly be considered positive, however, since the increase corresponds to spam sent from Gmail addresses.