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Alan Levine
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Alan Levine writes CogDogBlog, a personal blog at cogdogblog.com about web, culture and writing. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Alan Levine's posts on Google's Creative Commons image search problems and the history of reCAPTCHA's book digitization, cited as sources. No comment judges the writing itself.
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Alan Levine barks about and plays with stuff here
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for the HN treatment. As a followup piece, a Google response of this being "a bug". Followup story, my return rate for CC licensed images of "dog" went from 3 to 13. More than that, license info is not displayed (only linked), is frequently wrong, and photo credits often given to the site, not the creator of the image. https://cogdogblog.com/2022/10/google-cc-image-search-better... Try Openverse for much more…
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on “Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons”Submitted Google Broke Image Search for Creative Commons as a story · 368 points
HN discussionThe older captcha with words was for the digitization of books. It helped in the Google Books, and Internet Archive projects notably. https://cogdogblog.com/2013/12/recaptcha-all-the-books/ The current one helps in identifying and navigating streets, useful for maps and autonomous driving. https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/29/google-now-using-recaptcha... You'll notice that recaptcha always has a direct effect on curre…
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on “Why Captchas have gotten so difficult”Submitted Back to the Past: Find any site's first presence in the Internet Archive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Recipe for the Disenshittification of Web Recipes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hey Facebook – why do you do nothing about catfishing? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stories are Fragments as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Training vs. Cited Sources or Is Bing 60k Times Better Than – CogDogBlog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hypercard Archeostackology as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted YouTube Breaks Tag Functionality. Internet Does Not Notice. Blog at 11. as a story · 1 points
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