Google today acquired reCAPTCHA, a tiny firm originally started as a project of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. CAPTCHAs are those funny little stretched out text images ...

Susan Wojcicki, best-known as the head of YouTube, but who also played a key role in convincing the book world to allow Google to scan books into its search engine, died August 9 from lung cancer. She ...

The move gives Google at first a reliable Web fraud prevention tool. ReCAPTCHA's technology asks users to identify squiggly letter images a computer would have trouble interpreting, thus increasing ...

Officials at Lauinger Library say they are looking into using Google Book Search, a program that uploads rare manuscripts and artwork to the Internet, allowing users to read books online. Artemis Kirk ...