Thursday, February 16, 2012

You, Robot--word verification

Overnight, seemingly, Google's word verification suddenly changed. I used to like the old Google word formations. They were amusing, and always made me realize that the English language had a lot of room for expansion. The last word I noted was 'fadrow', which I thought would be great for our bestseller table.

All that has changed, though. Now you have to type in some boring normal word and then some weird word that is partially obscured by some sort of black disc or something. I don't have big eyesight issues, but even I struggle with the blurry words presented here.

The new look says, "Please prove that you are not a robot."

Frankly, I don't mind if you're a robot. If you can enter into the general conversation of the blog, not try to sell something to the readers here (robot authors, you are excluded from this clause), and be polite to others, you're welcome, more than welcome to comment. If not, you better go back to the factory for reprogramming because sure as shooting, I will delete you.

Word verification has fallen by the wayside here, at least for now. Humans, you better be on your best behavior too...
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8 comments:

  1. KathleenFebruary 17, 2012 at 9:23 AM

    And if you accidentally click the wrong thing, you HEAR a medley of the words....

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  2. seana grahamFebruary 17, 2012 at 5:28 PM

    A medley sounds pleasant in theory, but probably not so much so in practice.

    I was a bit afraid that I would find my inbox full of spam this morning, but so far not so much. I'll turn the verifier back on if it gets really annoying, for me or anyone else.

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  3. Peter RozovskyFebruary 17, 2012 at 8:50 PM

    That new verification system looks like the "Captcha" system that some other blog hosts have used. I wonder why Blogger went over to the new system. Security reasons? Financial reasons? Did Google buy the company that created "Captcha"?

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  4. seana grahamFebruary 17, 2012 at 8:59 PM

    Yes, it was already familiar. I doubt we will ever know the answers, but I am a bit surprised that we don't have the option of keeping the old form, instead of just having to opt out entirely.

    The two word system is a pain, but not totally unbearable, so I'll go back to it if the spam gets too unbearable.

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  5. Julie C GrahamFebruary 17, 2012 at 11:41 PM

    I wondered about that myself. And felt like I must really be getting old because half the time I can't make out the words. Glad I'm not alone!

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  6. Peter RozovskyFebruary 18, 2012 at 1:16 PM

    Yeah, it's a real "Eye, Robot" thing, hard on everyone's eyesight.

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  7. seana grahamFebruary 18, 2012 at 8:03 PM

    I thought people were switching over deliberately until I noticed that it had happened here too.

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  8. Peter RozovskyFebruary 18, 2012 at 9:38 PM

    No, it's Blogger thing. We al leave it, I think.

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