I just love when my readers send me cool stuff to check out! This one comes from Garry Egan (sorry, he didn’t give me a URL to link to) and it’s a great tool for checking if anyone’s ripping your articles without your permission or giving you credit. It’s called Article Checker.
You can check simply by entering your URL (or the URL of the article) or by copying and pasting the text from the article into a search box. The thing I like is that it grabs your content in sentences or sections and checks against that, so if you’re wondering if someone’s ripping even partial content, you can find out this way.
The only thing I don’t see is a way to FIND the duplicated content elsewhere. Am I missing something?
Note: I’ve disabled comments on this post because people who can’t read are using it to submit their piece to check for plagiarism… *sigh*. I’m tired of deleting them - one woman called me from China ELEVEN TIMES to ask me to remove her piece.
If you have something to say on this subject, please contact me and I’ll post it for you.
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March 31st, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Hi there
Thanks for posting my tool.
You mentioned that you would like to know the SOURCE of the duplicated content.
We listened and added this feature.
When the results of the page are displayed, there is now HOTLINKS to the DUPE CONTENT.
ENJOY!
April 2nd, 2007 at 9:43 am
Thanks for the update, Garry - I’ll definitely have to check that out!
You know, it’s great when people are willing to listen to the public’s feedback and make adjustments and additions to their tools - not everyone does that - great job!
April 15th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Hey Garry, your product seems to have a lot of potential, but at present, it has one major flaw. How it has managed to evade your attention is something that amazes me though. When I provided the URL of my blog for verification, it said that it was a 77% copied article (48/62). Yet, when I clicked on the hotlinks to see which were the sources that I had supposedly plagiarized from, almost all of the references were to my very own blog! If you were checking my blog against references to my own blog, is it surprising that the match came up to 77%? I would have expected a much higher number actually!!!! You should exclude references to the original article if the article being checked is online. I guess your system would still work fine for files that have not yet been posted online.
Good luck and God bless!
April 15th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Oh wow complexvanilla - thank you for bringing that up. Hopefully Garry will come back here to see that.