In 1996, Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page famously started the search company 
in a Stanford dorm room. The two eventually moved the company to a Menlo Park garage, which the company quickly outgrew. Sun Microsystems founder Andy Bechtolsheim was the company’s first investor with other notable investors including Ron Conway, John Doerr, Mike Moritz and Ram Shriram.
Now Google is such a giant company. Number one search engine with highest market share. Google is having best vision for acquiring company. Till now Google had acquire many companies like Orkut, You Tube, Feed Burner, Double click and some more. Now this thing extended up to reCAPTCHA. Google has officially announcer that they had acquire reCAPTCHA.
Check following text from Google’s own Blog.
we’re excited to welcome the reCAPTCHA team to Google, and we’re committed to delivering the same high level of performance that websites using reCAPTCHA have come to expect. Improving the availability and accessibility of all the information on the Internet is really important to us, so we’re looking forward to advancing this technology with the reCAPTCHA team.
You can check official Google Post : Teaching computers to read: Google acquires reCAPTCHA
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That’s very good news
google spanning its growth on leaps and bound way.
Nice news even though it is old now…however Google is forgetting that latest spam bots can read captcha pretty smartly…sad!
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