But in order to leave a comment, often you have to decipher an almost impossible word and type it yourself. I was going to complain about how difficult these words are and how they don't even mean anything, but then I clicked on the question mark next to the box and read this:
Helping the World One Word at a Time
By entering the words in the box, you are also helping to digitize
texts that were written before the computer age. The words that you see
were taken directly from old texts that are being scanned and stored in
digital format in order to preserve them and make them more accessible
to the world. Since some of the words in these texts are difficult for
computers to process, we are using the results of your efforts to help
decipher them.
I am now appeased and will no longer get mad at google for challenging me with these words every time I want to leave a comment!
4 comments:
That is really interesting. Never knew that.
Forgive me for sounding sceptical, but if that's the case, how does it know when you get them wrong?
Strange. I deliberately entered incorrect words (although only with a couple of letters incorrect) for the above message and it still seems to have posted fine. Then I tried to post this message with 2 completely incorrect words and it wouldn't let me. I tried again with two almost-correct words, and again it did't work.
Given the problems I usually have with these things, I probably just misread the word and in entering what I thought was an incorrect word, actually entered the correct one!
it's weird right? I thought the same thing, if it's asking us to enter them correctly then they must already have them in the database?
Thanks for wasting your time trying though Rich!!!
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