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As usual you shouldn't depend on Google for anything (especially if it's free) but I wonder what motivated them to charge for reCAPTCHA. For Gmaps I could see
by icefo 6y ago
As usual you shouldn't depend on Google for anything (especially if it's free) but I wonder what motivated them to charge for reCAPTCHA.
For Gmaps I could see the reason: we have the best map so you're going to pay a lot of money if you want to use it.
But I fail to see the reason for reCAPTCHA if they still intend to build their self driving car: the more classified data they have about the world the better and reCAPTCHA is probably inexpensive to run.
- Cyberdog 6y agoThe article hinted at this possibility, but perhaps Google has been using reCAPTCHA to train their systems for so long that the value of identifying yet another stoplight or crosswalk is no longer worth the cost of running the service to them.