No more infuriating Captcha: Google simply asks 'are you a robot?'

Google has begun simply asking users whether they are human or not, instead of making them spell out tricky words as a security measure. The new "No Captcha reCaptchas" are the latest in user analysis that allows Google and other websites to monitor user behaviour to figure out whether they are human and prevent robots from abusing the site. "For years, we've prompted users to confirm they aren't robots by asking them to read distorted text and type it into a box," said Vinay Shet, Google's product manager for reCaptcha. "But, we figured it would be easier to just directly ask our users whether or not they are robots – so, we did!" Robots access sites to scrape information and compete with users for purchases, events and sessions. Many services, including comparison sites, use robots to run the searches for users on multiple websites at once.