What is reCAPTCHA?

What is reCAPTCHA?

reCAPTCHA is a system for determining whether a website is being accessed by a human or a machine.

It was originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University's Pittsburgh campus in 2007, and Google bought the technology in 2009.

There are several versions of reCAPTCHA, with reCAPTCHA v3 being announced in 2018 and reCAPTCHA Enterprise in 2020.

Up to 1 million evaluations per month are available for free.

For more information, please see below.

Comparison of features between reCAPTCHA versions  |  reCAPTCHA Enterprise  |  Google Cloud

How to set up

To set up a reCAPTCHA on a Google Form, do the following in the "Responses" section of the form settings.

  • Turn on "Collect email addresses"
  • Set "Send responders a copy of their response" to "Always" or "When requested"

With this setting, the reCAPTCHA logo will appear at the bottom of the form, as shown in the image below.



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