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Why do websites still use CAPTCHA?

by Janet Nguyen
Aug 23, 2024
They’re annoying to humans, but they can stop the bots.
Early iterations of CAPTCHA tests asked users to type in the characters they saw on the screen.
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Google moves to tackle those spammy searches

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Mar 8, 2024
Users have increasingly complained that the search engine has been overrun by a barrage of low-quality content.
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We're used to spam calls and emails. How about spam texts?

by Reema Khrais and Sarah Leeson
Aug 1, 2023
Cutting off advertising conversations in your text messages "is a little bit of a game of whack-a-mole," Vox reporter Emily Stewart says.
A positive of SMS marketing? Companies "probably aren't going to inundate you the same way that they will with emails because there's a cost factor to it," says Vox reporter Emily Stewart.
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The daily grind: Even email spammers work 9 to 5

by Jana Kasperkevic
Aug 23, 2017
It’s so that they catch you while you’re at work.
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Spamalittle or Spamalot? We do the numbers on Spam

by Jana Kasperkevic
Jul 5, 2017
Spam's glorious birthday is July 5th.
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The Art of Money

@horse_ebooks no spam bot

by Kai Ryssdal
Sep 24, 2013
The longest running corporate art piece in history? Tweeters spend four years pretending to be a spam-bot, unveiled today as part of gallery show.
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Gmail's new inbox sorts spam and bacon

by Molly Wood
Jul 29, 2013
Google changed its popular free email service Gmail last week. Where once there was one true inbox, now there seems to be three.
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Google algorithm inadvertently takes down ring of Chinese car thieves

by Molly Wood
Jul 25, 2013
Machines are becoming alarmingly intelligent, smart enough to root out crime.
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By The Numbers

Happy birthday, spam! On what 35 years of spam has gotten us

by Noel King
May 3, 2013
Thirty five years ago today, Gary Thuerk sent out the first spam email. We mark the anniversary by trying to track down a spammer ourselves.
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The story of the first email spam message

by Kai Ryssdal
May 3, 2013
It happened 35 years ago.
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