ads in captchas! what a brilliant wicked idea!
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"I wish I thought about this first" is filed under Marketing and C0Ol Ads. It was published in January 2007.
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Actually, I’m surprised it took them as long as they did (drink Mountain Dew) to adopt such tactics.
hmmm nice idea…
YES it’s cool : )
Mish fahmeh
Dave, lol your comment was flagged as spam!
MQabbani, very cool actually
Ola, you know how blogger accounts among others ask you to type the characters you see in a small automatically generated picture to confirm that you are a person? instead of the randomly generated characters marketers can use brand names (or messages just like Dave did).
NO just COOL
aha now I get it
I thought the title was: You wish you think about it first, I thought it’s supposed to give a negative image 
Actually, Captchas as an Idea is pretty lame and stupid. The reason I say this is that it doesn’t take into consideration people with disabilities for example someone who can’t read well, blind ..etc
This kind of test is a lame “step” along the way of distinguishing humans from machines and one day, the machines WILL be smart enough to overcome it.
Anyway, imagine the negative feelings you will have if you type “Pepsi” and it doesn’t work the same time. you will HATE Pepsi for it
stolen article!
Why are you linking to other people’s articles without mentioning them?
Shame on you! THIEF
Cooooool jd
very nice idea !
TheGuru, lol what’s your problem? I believe there’s away for challenged people to confirm that they are persons and not robots and it has nothing to do with what’s written in the captcha.