Google Kills Two Birds With One Stone With reCAPTCHA Purchase

Our Comments

We envisage that Google will be purchasing Wordpress at some point in the future as Automattic, its parent company, becomes a proper content producing powerhouse. As for reCAPTCHA, it is a great acquisition that solves Google's issue with character recognition as well as protecting its online services from bogus accounts.

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