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Is text based CAPTCHA dead? Inside Indias CAPTCHA solving economy
The bottom line - is text based CAPTCHA dead? It’s definitely in pain thanks to evil marketers recruiting low-waged Indian data processing workers, who according to some of the statistics obtained, earn over ten times more while solving CAPTCHAs, than through their legitimate data processing jobs.
How serious is the CAPTCHA solving business in India? The following Indian advertisements of their CAPTCHA services clearly speak for themselves - business is good and they are in fact competing for projects :
* 24/7 support still like. We have 30 pc 90 worker & we have 300 captcha team. Your any captcha project we done quickly. We have high experience captcha worker
* Sir, We have 10 systems with good typing skill workers. We can easily do 25k per day
* I have 40 PCs and 55 Persons working in my office for data entry work. As 1 person can do 800 captcha entry per hour. We can deliver you good quantity with quality
* Hello Sir, I will kindly introduce myself.. This is shivakumar.. we have a team to type capcthas 24/7 and we can type more than 200k captchas per day
* WE ARE PROFESSIONAL CAPCHA ENTRY OPEATORS AND WE CAN DO EVEN 25000 ENTRIES PER DAY AS MY COMPANY IS A 25 SEATER FIRM SPEALISED IN DATA ENTRY
* Our Team is very much interested in your project and we could easily handle more than 50,000 captcha entries per day
* We having more then 10 teams,we are operating 24/7 data entry works and delivering 700k/day captchas daily
* I have a team of 7 people, willing to do captchas at $2 per 1000 entries. Please consider my bid. We can definitely provide 50K captchas per day
* I have 40 PCs and 55 Persons working in my office for data entry work. As 1 person can do 800 captcha entry per hour. We can deliver you good quantity with quality
* My team is equipped to offer the services. 20 person team, T1 business speed internet with an on hand technical staff. We are able to start right away
* Dear Sir I am an expert in account creation, will provide you the accounts as per your requirements.I ensure the guaranteed satisfaction always. I charge only $40/1000
* captcha typing teams for 24/7 ready. Rate $1.25 for 1K, up to 100K captchas per day
* 1$ per 1K of entries, and ready to produce 50 K entries per day. Kindly look forward procedures to provide the chance to us
* My rate $4.00 per 1k My team can work 24/7. They are jobless now
* $3 per 1000 image entry, Ready start. 24/7 service like also. We have 30 pc 90 worker & 39 big captcha team so your any target we solve
* Dear Sir, We have quoted 50 $ per 50000 entries., Kindly look forward procedures to provide a chance to work with you
Posted by Raven on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 @ 12:09:23 EDT (36 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Google to launch browser to battle IE; Is Firefox a target or tag-team partner?
Google confirmed that Chrome will launch on Tuesday in a beta that will cover 100 countries.
Google said on its blog:
All of us at Google spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends — all using a browser. Because we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if we started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that’s what we set out to build.
On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a tool to run the important stuff — the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.
Posted by Raven on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 @ 11:46:08 EDT (33 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Google Quietly Launches AdSense For Feeds
nb1 writes "Bits and pieces of Google's acquisition of FeedBurner continue to seep out. Friday marked the quiet "public" launch of AdSense for Feeds, a service that was soft-launched to a small group of AdSense users back in May.
Once integrated into publishers' RSS feeds, it'll serve up contextually-related advertising based around the content, helping publishers make money off the growing number of users accessing their site through RSS readers instead of the site where page and ad views have been factors in revenue. For users who did not have access to the AdSense for Feeds menu in Google's AdSense, it's a pretty straightforward setup.
Publishers can set ad frequency, placement, and have it only add them on content that's over a certain size. It also employs the same "channels" tool that lets you later track ad campaigns on certain sections of your site. Google Blogoscoped's Ionut Alex Chitu notes this release comes just a few weeks after the closure of FeedBurner's in-house ad publishing network, meaning all new publishers will need to through AdSense to be included in in-feed advertisements.
Showing you just how much they understand about security, McAfee blocked the SANS website, sans.org, as well as giac.org and sans.edu, with their SiteAdvisor application, listing it as a “bad” site.
Interestingly enough, SANS sites are some of the best sites to go to for security related news. Several people count on SANS for training on many security topics, and SANS also hosts one of my favorite websites, the Internet Storm Center Handler’s Diary. This site catalogs the daily events of Incident Handlers and provides intuitive thoughts on new attacks and how to deal with them.
Posted by Raven on Thursday, July 31, 2008 @ 13:59:35 EDT (195 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Google Plans New Internet Measurement Tool
nb1 writes "Google is expected to unveil a tool that measures Internet use to help advertisers identify the best places to buy ads that will reach their target audiences, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
The measurement tool, which will be offered free to advertisers and their agencies, will compete with services offered by established leaders Nielsen and ComScore. While those services base their estimations on selective surveys or customer panels, the newspaper said, Google's results will be based on data collected from Web servers, providing a deeper and broader picture of Internet behavior.
By giving away the new tool, Google could attract more advertising business. The announcement follows one last week about Google Trends' new service, which lets people type in specific domains and compare basic traffic information about any .com site using nothing more than organic user searches.
Included are daily traffic numbers in users (sent from Google search), where the users are coming from, and related sites that were either searched for or visited in that same session. After news of the planned tool hit the Web on Monday, ComScore shares fell $1.69, or 6.1 percent, to $26 after-hours trading. Nielsen is a privately owned company.
Posted by Raven on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 01:22:08 EDT (334 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Gmail in Firefox
southern writes "In olden days, when you clicked on an e-mail link in your browser, it had to have an e-mail client to launch. That method doesn't work if you use a service such as Gmail or Yahoo Mail as your main account.
Firefox 3 to the rescue. Watch our video on how to do this tip, then come back here for the written steps.
Go to Tools and options (Firefox and Preferences on a Mac).
Choose Applications.
Search "mailto"."
Posted by Raven on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 01:21:44 EDT (1669 reads) (Read More... | 1323 bytes more | Score: 0)
HTTrack.com: easy-to-use offline browser utility GPL - fast and stable
nukeevangelist writes "HTTrack [click] is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet
get it and help at forums -
travel over and get free code - share your ideas and get help"
Posted by Raven on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 @ 01:19:41 EDT (311 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Is Your ISP Throttling Your Network Connection?
NB1 writes "If you aren’t sure, you will soon be able to download a tool from Google that will tell you once and for all if they are. If ISP’s aren’t going to tell their users exactly what is happening with their network connections, Google wants to make sure that these people have the ability to tell for themselves.
This announcement is Google’s most recent attempt at raising awareness about net neutrality. This isn’t the first time someone has made software to monitor your network to figure out if your ISP is doing anything fishy,
NNSquad Network Measurement Agent is a tool that does exactly that already.
In fact, this might actually be the tool Google is referring to. Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet Evangelist, is part of the NNSquad already. It’s unclear what kind of effect something like this will have on the network neutrality debate, but it certainly can’t hurt.
Posted by Raven on Tuesday, June 17, 2008 @ 00:42:04 EDT (446 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Top ten worst spam registrars notified by ICANN
Top 10 Illicit Domain Registrars CHINA - Xinnet Bei Gong Da Software, BEIJINGNN, Todaynic
GERMANY - Joker
USA - eNom, Inc., MONIKER, Dynamic Dolphin, The Nameit Co/AITDOMAINS.COM, PDR, Intercosmos/DIRECTNIC
More than half of those registrars named had already been contacted by ICANN prior to publication of KnujOn’s report, and the remainder have since been notified following an analysis of other sources of data, including ICANN’s internal database. With tens of millions of domain names in existence, and tens of thousands changing hands each day, ICANN relies upon the wider Internet community to report and review what it believes to be inaccurate registration data for individual domains. To this end, a dedicated online system called the Whois Data Problem Report System (“WDPRS”) was developed in 2002 to receive and track such complaints. ICANN sends, on average, over 75 enforcement notices per month following complaints from the community. We also conduct compliance audits to determine whether accredited registrars and registries are adhering to their contractual obligations,” explained Stacy Burnette, Director of Compliance at ICANN. “Infringing domain names are locked and websites removed every week through this system.”
Posted by Raven on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 @ 13:32:47 EDT (459 reads) ( | Score: 0)
If hackers don’t get you, maybe Google will
Posted by Robin Harris @ 2:29 pm on May 18, 2008
Two weeks ago my personal blog (StorageMojo) was hacked. Turns out that Google can be a bigger problem than the hackers. Here’s how it works and tips on protecting yourself.
“Don’t be evil” is a pretty low bar
There’s been a lot of blog hacking going around. The criminals know that many folks with small websites and blogs are easy targets.
Break into a site, plant links, let Google to index it and all of a sudden millions of queries will be coming to the hacked sites. Put ads on the screen and see who bites.