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Is Google building an anti-spam empire?
- ErrantX 17y ago> My prediction: Google next purchase in this space will be Akismet. Im not so convinced - it depends a lot on what technology Akismet can provide. I mean yes they get a hell of a lot of content daily - but any more than Google get from Blogspot and other sources? I cant imagine it is enough to warrant a purchase based on that. So, the tech. Im still not overly convinced about it; on my blog it is constantly flagging clear spam as "maybe". The thing is the posts are near identical in content week on week so the tech is a poor learner! Google's email spam tech is killer in comparison, so I highly doubt they will be interested in Akismet. Unless of course the intention is just to cut out the competition or offer an "spam api" of their own to the Akismet user base.
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- ianbishop 17y agoInteresting view. I'm pretty sure that their reCAPTCHA purchase has more to do with scanning their books than it does with captcha.