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userbinator on Dec 4, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Are You a Robot? Introducing “No CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA...

When trying to use Google to find something obscure, I'm not so much bothered by the difficulty of doing so as I am by the implication that "real humans" don't use complex search queries. They used to teach in computer literacy courses how to use search engines, complete with complex multi-term boolean queries, to find exactly what you're looking for. Now try the same with Google and you're a bot? WTF? They're basically saying "humans are too stupid to do that - humans are supposed to be stupid."

wastedhours on Dec 4, 2014 | [–]

Or that a lot of their target demographic has never been taught that, and so they've optimised their delivery to be accessible to the majority?

AndrewKemendo on Dec 4, 2014 | [–]

Well to be fair most of their users probably are too "stupid" (aka were never taught) to do that.

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