Your Next Job: Translating the Web
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You've been working for Luis von Ahn. You just didn't know it.
Von Ahn is the inventor of Captcha, the Web-security tool that requires users to enter a series of hard-to-decipher characters to access a site. After his technology caught on, he began including scanned images of text from old newspapers and books, so that as people typed in what they saw, they were unwittingly being used as digital transcribers. Google later bought the technology.