{"id":17653,"date":"2013-12-12T00:04:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T05:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17653"},"modified":"2013-12-12T00:09:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T05:09:03","slug":"house-numbers-in-recaptcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/house-numbers-in-recaptcha\/","title":{"rendered":"House Numbers in reCAPTCHA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"reCAPTCHA at Google using an image of a house number (likely from Google Street View) as one of the images to be typed in.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/105208-1\/Screen+Shot+2013-12-11+at+11_55_15+PM.png\" width=\"519\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier today when setting up a new <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\">Google Group<\/a> for planning a <a href=\"http:\/\/cramba.org\">CRAMBA<\/a> event I noticed that Google&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\">reCAPTCHA<\/a>\u00a0service has moved from using just scanned book images (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/learnmore\">info on how this worked<\/a>) to using house numbers which I suspect are from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Google_Street_View\">Google Street View<\/a>. I imagine that this works well for them because house numbers are inherently human readable and successfully translating them to integers is likely key to their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reverse_geocoding\">reverse geocoding<\/a>\u00a0efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EDIT:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2012\/03\/29\/google-now-using-recaptcha-to-decode-street-view-addresses\/\">Apparently this is old news.<\/a> Shows how often I use reCAPTCHA&#8230; I first noticed it today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today when setting up a new Google Group for planning a CRAMBA event I noticed that Google&#8217;s\u00a0reCAPTCHA\u00a0service has moved from using just scanned book&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/12\/house-numbers-in-recaptcha\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House Numbers in reCAPTCHA<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17656,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653\/revisions\/17656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}