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web email accounts stories: 2 news summaries
OPINION

In One Domain, Anyway,
Man Still Conquers Machine

CAPTCHAs, where humans distill words from squiggles, hold line in spam war

Jun 9, 08 4:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Every web user has come across CAPTCHAs: wavy-lettered depiction of words you must retype as text. Most pay them no mind, but, Lev Grossman writes in Time, we should reflect upon completing one. They're one of the rare visible skirmishes in the largely invisible war between spammers and security programmers.... More »

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email • spam • Carnegie Mellon University • computer security • cybercrime • web email accounts • CAPTCHAs

Google to Microsoft:
Not So Fast

Web giant steps in, offers to help Yahoo rebuff rival's advances

Feb 3, 08 9:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Google is offering to help Yahoo thwart Microsoft’s attempts at a hostile takeover, the Wall Street Journal reports. After Microsoft announced its $44.6-billion bid, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt called Yahoo’s Jerry Yang on Friday to bolster talk of an ad search alliance, support Yahoo’s... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Microsoft • online advertising • antitrust • Jerry Yang • Eric Schmidt • search engine • instant messaging • web email accounts

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